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July 23, 2018
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B. Sonny Bal, MD, MBA, JD
Procedural error and negligence were cited as the most common reasons for litigation in malpractice claims in orthopedic surgery, according to recently published results in Orthopedics.
Nicole
D.
Rynecki
, BA, and colleagues used a Westlaw-based legal database to identify 81 jury verdicts and settlements with regard to medical malpractice and orthopedic surgery between 2010 to 2016. Two multivariable binary regression models were used to determine the possibility of a plaintiff jury verdict and the other to determine the possibility of a defendant verdict. The cases litigated most often included spine surgery, knee surgery and hip surgery. Among the cited reasons for litigation, the most common were procedural error and negligence.
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