Nursing Home Compare’s Fall Data May Be “Highly Inaccurate”
February 12, 2020
A study published on December 29, 2019 entitled, “Assessment of nursing home reporting of major injury falls for quality measurement on nursing home compare,” concluded: “The nursing home‐reported data used for the NHC [Nursing Home Compare] falls measure may be highly inaccurate[...]
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Medscape Cardiologist Malpractice Report 2019
February 10, 2020
Medscape Cardiologist Malpractice Report 2019, published on January 22, 2020, reported that 65% of the cardiologists completing a survey reported that they had been named as a defendant in at least one medical malpractice lawsuit, compared to 59% for physicians overall. The cardiologists reported th[...]
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Sinai Health System (Chicago) Warns Of Data Security Breach
January 28, 2020
On December 19, 2019, Sinai Health System issued a warning entitled “NOTICE OF SECURITY INCIDENT AT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM” that advised “Sinai Health System (Sinai) has become aware of a potential data security incident that may have resulted in the inadvertent exposure of some patie[...]
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FDA Issues Public Safety Notification On Exosome Products
January 21, 2020
On December 6, 2019, the FDA warned the public, especially patients, health care practitioners, and clinics, of multiple recent reports of serious adverse events experienced by patients in Nebraska who were treated with unapproved products marketed as containing exosomes. These reports were brought [...]
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Medical Malpractice Claims Against Anesthesiologists
January 4, 2020
The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, recently published a study of closed medical malpractice claims against anesthesiologists entitled, “Making Further Advancements in Anesthesia Care Safety,” in which it found: “the two most commo[...]
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Medical Malpractice Payout Statistics For 2018
December 31, 2019
An analysis of medical malpractice payouts for 2018 from the data collected by the National Practitioner Data Bank found that total amount of medical malpractice payouts increased by 2.91% in 2018 ($4,031,987,700). The average medical malpractice payout in 2018 was $348,065. There were 11,584 medica[...]
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Analysis Of Medical Malpractice Claims Against Radiologists
December 21, 2019
The Doctors Company, which is the largest medical malpractice insurer owned by physicians in the United States, has issued a report entitled “Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Closed Claims Study” in which it reports on the findings of its analysis of 596 claims (written demands fo[...]
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Why Can’t I Find A Medical Malpractice Lawyer To Help Me?
December 8, 2019
“Why can’t I find a medical malpractice lawyer to help me?” It is often difficult to find medical malpractice attorneys on your own to help you with your medical malpractice claim – not every instance of medical malpractice, no matter how obvious, will result in the victim be[...]
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