Medical Professional Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care

Victoria P. Rostow and Roger J. Bulger, Editors; Committee to Study Medical Professional Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Keynote Address; 3 Part I. The Medical Background; 4 The Impact of Technology Assessment and Medical Malpractice on the Diffusion of Medical Technologies: The Case of Electronic Fetal Monitoring; 5 Is the Rising Rate of Cesarean Sections a Result of More Defensive Medicine?; 6 Medical Professional Liability in Screening for Genetic Disorders and Birth Defects; 7 Part II. Effects on Access to and Delivery of Obstetrical Care; 8 Obstetrical Care for Low-Income Women: The Effects of Medicine Malpractice on Community Health Centers; 9 Medical Professional Liability and Access to Obstetrical Care: Is there a Crisis?; 10 Medical Professional Liability and the Relations between Doctors and Their Patients; 11 Professional Liability Insurance and Nurse-Midwifery Practice; 12 Part III. The Legal Issues; 13 Market and Regulatory Approaches to Medical Malpractice: The Virginia Obstetrical No-Fault Statute; 14 A Fault-Based Administrative Alternative for Resolving Medical Malpractice Claims: The AMA-Specialty Society Medical Liability Project; 15 The Shadow of the Law: Jury Decisions in Obstetrics and Gynecology Cases; 16 The Virginia Birth-Related Injury Compensation Act: Limited No-Fault Statutes as Solutions to the; 17 Legislative Proposals on Medical Professional Liability Regarding the Delivery of Maternal and Child Health Care; 18 Index