Chandra Amitabh, Nundy Shantanu, Seabury Seth A
Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2005 Jan-Jun;Suppl Web Exclusives:W5-240-W5-249. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.240.
We used data from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) to study the growth of physician malpractice payments. Judgments at trial account for 4 percent of all malpractice payments; settlements account for the remaining 96 percent. The average payment grew 52 percent between 1991 and 2003 (4 percent per year) and now exceeds dollar 12 per capita each year. These increases are consistent with increases in the cost of health care. A preoccupation with data on judgments, extreme awards, or specific specialties results in an incomplete understanding of the growth of physician malpractice payments.
我们使用了来自国家从业者数据库（NPDB）的数据来研究医生医疗事故赔偿的增长情况。审判判决占所有医疗事故赔偿的4%；和解占其余的96%。1991年至2003年间，平均赔偿增长了52%（每年4%），现在人均每年超过12美元。这些增长与医疗保健成本的增加相一致。专注于判决数据、巨额赔偿或特定专业的数据会导致对医生医疗事故赔偿增长的理解不完整。
