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Psychiatric malpractice: recent clinical loss experience in the United States
1Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles.
Medicine and Law
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
This article presents a survey of recent trends in psychiatric malpractice litigation and its consequences in the United States. More particularly, it investigates the factors that trigger such litigation, the nature of the complaints and claims, the characteristics of patient and psychiatrist and the cost it involves for the parties concerned.