Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act Archives

The Peer Review Privilege Is Supposed To Promote Patient Safety But Instead Harms Patients Injured By Medical Malpractice

August 24, 2022

The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-41) (“Act”), signed into law on July 29, 2005, was enacted in response to growing concern about patient safety in the United States and the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer [...]

Florida’s Amendment 7 Pre-Empted By Federal Law

November 7, 2015

In its written opinion filed on October 28, 2015, the District Court of Appeal First District (“Appellate Court”) held that Florida’s Amendment 7 (Article 10, section 25, of the Florida Constitution), which was adopted in 2004 and provides “a right to have access to any reco[...]

Kentucky Supreme Court Orders Production Of Medical Malpractice Incident Report

August 25, 2014

The Supreme Court of Kentucky (“Kentucky Supreme Court”) rendered its decision on August 21, 2014 in a case where the defendant hospital claimed a federal confidentiality privilege to refuse to provide the medical malpractice plaintiff with a copy of the incident report written by a surg[...]

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The Peer Review Privilege Is Supposed To Promote Patient Safety But Instead Harms Patients Injured By Medical Malpractice

Florida’s Amendment 7 Pre-Empted By Federal Law

Kentucky Supreme Court Orders Production Of Medical Malpractice Incident Report

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