The judicial performance indicators have been widely used in China to assess the performance of courts and judges. In this paper, I ascertained the effect of some of these indicators on the court decisions on medical malpractices in Shanghai. The findings of this paper support the previous study...

Medical malpractice law and tort reform are contentious issues. In this paper we focus on Italy as an example of a civil law jurisdiction. Italian medical malpractice law is essentially judge-made law. However, its effectiveness is likely to be curtailed by excessive delays in litigation....

Objective: To assess the characteristics and incidence of medical litigation in China and the potential usefulness of the records of such litigation as an indicator of healthcare quality. Methods: We investigated 13,620 cases of medical malpractice litigation that ended between 2010 and 2015 and...