Maternity Care and Liability

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2013

Journal Title

Women's Health Issues

ISSN

1049-3867

DOI

10.1016/j.whi.2012.11.005

Abstract

One of us is a leading expert in medical liability law and policy, and the other has devoted a career to the legal and policy issues arising in health care for low-income, minority, and medically underserved populations, particularly women and children. In our experience, two perspectivesdthe political and the physician-centereddtend to dominate discussions of medical liability reform. The principal strength of the collection of articles on liability associated with maternity care by Sakala and colleagues that appears in this issue of Women’s Health Issues is that it takes a different approach, emphasizing evidence over ideology, and broadening (at least to a degree) the reform umbrella to include other health professionals and settings in addition to physicians. The result is to restore attention to the core health policy issues that have always deserved greater consideration in malpractice policy than they receive: Safety, quality, and accessibility of care.

First Page

E3

Last Page

E5

Num Pages

3

Volume Number

23

Issue Number

1

Publisher

Elsevier

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