Medical negligence claims and the health and life satisfaction of Australian doctors: a prospective cohort analysis of the MABEL survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the association between medical negligence claims and doctors' self-rated health and life satisfaction.

Design

Prospective cohort study.

Participants

Registered doctors practising in Australia who participated in waves 4 to 11 of the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) longitudinal survey between 2011 and 2018.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Self-rated health and self-rated life satisfaction.

Results

Of the 15 105 doctors in the study, 885 reported being named in a medical negligence claim. Fixed-effects linear regression analysis showed that both self-rated health and self-rated life satisfaction declined for all doctors over the course of the MABEL survey, with no association between wave and being s

SUBMITTER: Bradfield OM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9121477 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature