An Analysis of the Number of Medical Malpractice Claims and Their Amounts.

Starting from an extensive database, pooling 9 years of data from the top three insurance brokers in Italy, and containing 38125 reported claims due to alleged cases of medical malpractice, we use an inhomogeneous Poisson process to model the number of medical malpractice claims in Italy. The intens...

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Main Authors: Marco Bonetti, Pasquale Cirillo, Paola Musile Tanzi, Elisabetta Trinchero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4831812?pdf=render