Reason for Lawsuit in Spinal Cord Injury Affects Final Outcome

Spine
Robert S QuigleyWayne K Cheng

Abstract

Retrospective cohort study. To review past cases and analyze them to determine whether reason for lawsuit led to a defense versus plaintiff verdict when patients sustain spinal cord injury. Secondary objectives included analyzing demographic factors and monetary awards for plaintiff verdicts and settlements. Evaluating malpractice cases could provide valuable information for the physician who has been sued by a patient. Previous studies about litigation and spine have been focused on medical tort reform and not on the reasons for litigation and lawsuit outcome. A large national medicolegal research service for civil and criminal court called "VerdictSearch" was queried for "spinal cord injury" between the years 2000 and 2010. Reason for lawsuit separated into 2 groups, error in diagnosis (n = 48), and error in treatment (n = 25). The anatomical region, outcome, cost, and job for sued health care workers recorded for each lawsuit. Compared with physicians who were sued for errors in diagnosis, those sued for an error of treatment had a relative risk of 2.69 (95% confidence interval, 1.40-5.16) to receive a defense verdict (P = 0.003). There were no significant differences in demographic information, including age, sex, occupatio...Continue Reading

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