{
  "slug": "physicians-with-multiple-paid-medical-malpractice-claims-are-they-outliers-or-just-unlucky",
  "title": "Physicians with Multiple Paid Medical Malpractice Claims: Are They Outliers or Just Unlucky?",
  "authors": "with Bernard Black and David Hyman",
  "venue": "International Review of Law and Economics",
  "year": 2019,
  "category": "evaluation",
  "section": "peerReviewed",
  "status": "published",
  "visibility": "public-pdf",
  "doi": "10.1016/j.irle.2019.03.006",
  "canonical_url": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2019.03.006",
  "summary": "Observed physician claim histories are compared here to a simulation-based null model in which malpractice claims are random events conditional on specialty and state risk. Prior paid claims strongly predict future paid claims, and even in high-risk specialties and states, physicians with three or more paid claims in five years are very unlikely to be explained by bad luck alone. The framework is meant as a way for hospitals and medical boards to identify outlier physicians for graduated intervention.",
  "metadata_url": "https://jyl19.github.io/papers/physicians-with-multiple-paid-medical-malpractice-claims-are-they-outliers-or-just-unlucky/metadata.json",
  "summary_url": "https://jyl19.github.io/papers/physicians-with-multiple-paid-medical-malpractice-claims-are-they-outliers-or-just-unlucky/summary.md",
  "pdf_url": "https://jyl19.github.io/papers/physicians-with-multiple-paid-medical-malpractice-claims-are-they-outliers-or-just-unlucky/paper.pdf"
}