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Attitudes about Medical Malpractice: An American Society of Neuroradiology Survey

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Neuroradiology, December 2013
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Title
Attitudes about Medical Malpractice: An American Society of Neuroradiology Survey
Published in
American Journal of Neuroradiology, December 2013
DOI 10.3174/ajnr.a3730
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Authors

N.P. Pereira, J.S. Lewin, K.P. Yousem, D.M. Yousem

Abstract

The concern over medicolegal liability is pervasive among physicians. We sought, through an email survey to the members of the ASNR, to assess the experience with and attitudes about the medicolegal environment among neuroradiologists. Of 4357 physicians surveyed, 904 answered at least 1 of the questions in the survey; 449 of 904 (49.7%) had been sued: 180 (44.9%) had been sued once, 114 (28.4%) twice, 60 (15.0%) 3 times, and 47 (11.7%) more than 3 times. The payouts for suits were most commonly in the $50,000 to $150,000 range, except for interventional neuroradiologists, in whom the most common value was $600,000 to $1,200,000. Only 9 of 481 (1.9%) of suits returned a plaintiff verdict. Despite reported outcomes that favored physicians with respect to cases being dropped (270/481 = 56.1%), settled without a payment (11/481 = 2.3%), or a defense verdict (46/481 = 9.6), most respondents (81.1%, 647/798) believed that the medicolegal system was weighted toward plaintiffs. More than half of the neuroradiologists (55.2%, 435/787) reported being mildly to moderately concerned, and 19.1% (150/787) were very or extremely concerned about being sued.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Korea, Republic of 1 7%
Unknown 14 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 33%
Student > Master 2 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 7%
Professor 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 4 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 33%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 7%
Social Sciences 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 5 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 May 2020.
All research outputs
#3,112,128
of 22,753,345 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Neuroradiology
#722
of 4,875 outputs
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#38,151
of 307,145 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Neuroradiology
#4
of 77 outputs
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