Journal of patient safety
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Journal of patient safety · Jun 2018
Do Written Disclosures of Serious Events Increase Risk of Malpractice Claims? One Health Care System's Experience.
This study aimed to determine whether Pennsylvania ACT 13 of 2002 (Mcare) requiring the written and verbal disclosure of "serious events" was accompanied by increased malpractice claims or compensation costs in a large U.S. health system. ⋯ Implementation of a mandated serious event disclosure law in Pennsylvania was not associated with an overall increase in malpractice claims filed. Among events of similar degree of harm, disclosed events had higher compensation paid compared with those that had not been disclosed.