nature of the present system of liability rules, which largely hold physicians to standards determined according to industry … evidence has been put forth to date bearing on the relationship between medical liability forces on the one hand and medical …--e.g., damage caps--we estimate that the current liability system plays at most a modest role in inducing higher levels of health …

nature of the present system of liability rules, which largely hold physicians to standards determined according to industry … evidence has been put forth to date bearing on the relationship between medical liability forces on the one hand and medical …--e.g., damage caps--we estimate that the current liability system plays at most a modest role in inducing higher levels of health …

determine whether patient negligence should be considered in litigation. The project examines the line at which a physician’s … on a physician’s diagnosis and treatment …

We assess the potential for medical liability forces to deter medical errors and improve health care treatment quality …, identifying liability’s influence by drawing on variations in the manner by which states formulate the negligence standard facing … physicians. Using hospital discharge records from the National Hospital Discharge Survey and clinically-validated quality metrics …