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Evidence-Based Medicine: History And Context

PROLOGUE: As the sharp partisan rhetoric of the 2004 election cycle vividly illustrated, medical malpractice reform is the houseguest who just won’t leave. Once again the nation faces the spectacle of health care providers descending upon state capitals in parts of the country that are experiencing a new wave of spiking liability insurance premiums. However, a national discourse, fueled by election-year politics, that is preoccupied with discussion of caps on the noneconomic-damages component of jury awards has prevented serious exploration of other remedial policy initiatives, such as efforts to improve patient safety. In fact, while the World Health Organization announced . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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