Carroll, Caitlin; Cutler, David M.; Jena, Anupam B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
or not salient to physicians. We test how physicians respond to malpractice allegations made directly against them. Our … sample is Emergency Department physicians in Florida, where we have the universe of data on patients and how they are treated … along with a census of malpractice complaints. We find that physicians oversee 9% fewer discharges after malpractice …