Open AccessSimilar Liability for Trauma and Nontrauma Surgical Anesthesia
Author(s) -
Hernando Olivar,
Sam R. Sharar,
Linda S. Stephens,
Karen L. Posner,
Karen B. Domino
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e31826ac344
Subject(s) - medicine , american society of anesthesiologists , liability , malpractice , anesthesia , odds ratio , anesthesiology , logistic regression , odds , emergency medicine , finance , economics , pathology , political science , law
Trauma care has many challenges, including the perception by nonanesthesia physicians of increased medical malpractice liability. We used the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Closed Claims Project database and the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) to compare the rate of claims for trauma anesthesia care to national trauma surgery data. We also used the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Closed Claims Project database to evaluate injury and liability profiles of trauma anesthesia malpractice claims compared to nontrauma surgical anesthesia claims.