Allen B Kachalia

Summary

Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Does full disclosure of medical errors affect malpractice liability? The jury is still out
    Allen Kachalia
    Brigham and Women s Faulkner Hospitalist Program, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:503-11. 2003
  2. ncbi Beyond negligence: avoidability and medical injury compensation
    Allen B Kachalia
    Department of Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, PB 6 Administration, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Soc Sci Med 66:387-402. 2008
  3. ncbi Liability claims and costs before and after implementation of a medical error disclosure program
    Allen Kachalia
    Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Ann Intern Med 153:213-21. 2010
  4. ncbi "Health courts" and accountability for patient safety
    Michelle M Mello
    Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Milbank Q 84:459-92. 2006
  5. ncbi Effect of bar-code technology on the safety of medication administration
    Eric G Poon
    Division of General Medicine Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 3 F, 1620 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120, USA
    N Engl J Med 362:1698-707. 2010
  6. ncbi Administrative compensation of medical injuries: a hardy perennial blooms again
    Paul J Barringer
    Common Good
    J Health Polit Policy Law 33:725-60. 2008

Detail Information

Publications6

  1. ncbi Does full disclosure of medical errors affect malpractice liability? The jury is still out
    Allen Kachalia
    Brigham and Women s Faulkner Hospitalist Program, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, USA
    Jt Comm J Qual Saf 29:503-11. 2003
    ..A comprehensive literature search was conducted to determine what is known about the impact of full disclosure on malpractice liability...
  2. ncbi Beyond negligence: avoidability and medical injury compensation
    Allen B Kachalia
    Department of Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, PB 6 Administration, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Soc Sci Med 66:387-402. 2008
    ..Importantly, all three nations are harnessing their systems' power to improve patient safety, and the avoidability standard appears to be well suited for this task...
  3. ncbi Liability claims and costs before and after implementation of a medical error disclosure program
    Allen Kachalia
    Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
    Ann Intern Med 153:213-21. 2010
    ..Since 2001, the University of Michigan Health System (UMHS) has fully disclosed and offered compensation to patients for medical errors...
  4. ncbi "Health courts" and accountability for patient safety
    Michelle M Mello
    Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Milbank Q 84:459-92. 2006
    ....
  5. ncbi Effect of bar-code technology on the safety of medication administration
    Eric G Poon
    Division of General Medicine Primary Care, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 3 F, 1620 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02120, USA
    N Engl J Med 362:1698-707. 2010
    ..To help prevent such errors, technology has been developed to verify medications by incorporating bar-code verification technology within an electronic medication-administration system (bar-code eMAR)...
  6. ncbi Administrative compensation of medical injuries: a hardy perennial blooms again
    Paul J Barringer
    Common Good
    J Health Polit Policy Law 33:725-60. 2008
    ..We conclude by examining conditions that may facilitate or impede progress toward establishing demonstration projects of health courts...