Researchers used the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Close Claims Project database and the National Inpatient Sample to compare the rate of claims for trauma anesthesia care to national trauma surgery data, according to Anesthesia & Analgesia.
Trauma care is perceived by non-anesthesia physicians to have increased medical malpractice liability, so the researchers from the University of Washington decided to verify or dispel this.
Despite these perceptions, they found trauma anesthesia care was at no increased risk of liability among inpatients. Trauma claims represented 6 percent of the total 6,215 surgical anesthesia claims in the study period.
They also found the proportion of malpractice claims in trauma anesthesia care was not increased compared to non-traumatic surgical anesthesia care.
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Trauma care is perceived by non-anesthesia physicians to have increased medical malpractice liability, so the researchers from the University of Washington decided to verify or dispel this.
Despite these perceptions, they found trauma anesthesia care was at no increased risk of liability among inpatients. Trauma claims represented 6 percent of the total 6,215 surgical anesthesia claims in the study period.
They also found the proportion of malpractice claims in trauma anesthesia care was not increased compared to non-traumatic surgical anesthesia care.
More Articles on Anesthesia:
4 Key Issues in Ambulatory Anesthesia
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