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Paid Malpractice Claims Among US Physicians by Specialty, 1992-2014
JAMA Internal Medicine, May 2017
Schaffer AC, Jena AB, Seabury SA, Singh H, Chalasani V, Kachalia A. Rates and Characteristics of Paid Malpractice Claims Among US Physicians by Specialty, 1992-2014. JAMA Intern Med. 2017;177(5):710-718. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.0311
JAMA Internal Medicine, May 2017
"Across all paid claims, the most common type of allegation was an error in diagnosis (31.8% [35 349 of 111 066]), followed by errors related to surgery (26.9% [29 861 of 111 066]), and errors related to medication or treatment (24.5% [27 153 of 111 066]).
There were marked differences among specialties in the proportion of paid claims attributable to diagnostic errors. The percentage of paid claims in which diagnostic errors were alleged was highest in pathology (87.0% [915 of 1052]) and radiology (83.9% [4972 of 5923]), and lowest in anesthesiology (3.5% [153 of 4317]) and plastic surgery (4.3% [111 of 2569]).
Plastic surgery had the highest percentage of paid claims related to alleged surgical errors (73.3% [1882 of 2569]).
The specialties with the highest percentage of paid claims related to alleged errors in medication or treatment were psychiatry (55.8% [737 of 1320]) and dermatology (45.1% [419 of 929]) followed by general practice (41.4% [582 of 1405]), cardiology (40.0% [1449 of 3622]), and pulmonology (39.6% [390 of 986])."
There were marked differences among specialties in the proportion of paid claims attributable to diagnostic errors. The percentage of paid claims in which diagnostic errors were alleged was highest in pathology (87.0% [915 of 1052]) and radiology (83.9% [4972 of 5923]), and lowest in anesthesiology (3.5% [153 of 4317]) and plastic surgery (4.3% [111 of 2569]).
Plastic surgery had the highest percentage of paid claims related to alleged surgical errors (73.3% [1882 of 2569]).
The specialties with the highest percentage of paid claims related to alleged errors in medication or treatment were psychiatry (55.8% [737 of 1320]) and dermatology (45.1% [419 of 929]) followed by general practice (41.4% [582 of 1405]), cardiology (40.0% [1449 of 3622]), and pulmonology (39.6% [390 of 986])."
Schaffer AC, Jena AB, Seabury SA, Singh H, Chalasani V, Kachalia A. Rates and Characteristics of Paid Malpractice Claims Among US Physicians by Specialty, 1992-2014. JAMA Intern Med. 2017;177(5):710-718. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.0311
