Closing Death's Door: Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm

by Stephan Landsman and Michael J Saks

After heart disease and cancer, the third leading cause of death in the United States is iatrogenic injury (avoidable injury or infection caused by a healer). Research suggests that avoidable errors claim several hundred thousand lives every year. The principal economic counterforce to such errors, malpractice litigation, has never been a particularly effective deterrent for a host of reasons, with fewer than 3% of negligently injured patients (or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190667982
• ISBN13: 9780190667986
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"