Medical Liability and Access to Obstetrical Care: Can Alternatives to the Tort System Work: Background Papers and Proceedings from a Working Conference. Common Ground: Southern Regional Project on Infant Mortality (Includes Executive Summary)

摘要

The document contains background papers and proceedings from the conference entitled 'Medical Liability and Access to Obstetrical Care: Can Alternatives to the Tort System Work'. Nearly 150 attorneys, health care providers advocates, legislators, and researchers attended the conference in December 1991. The goal was to educate a broader audience about tort reform, alternatives to the tort system, and methods to ease provider shortages. The conference proceedings contain seven broad conclusions and recommendations resulting from discussions held during the conference, and eight pieces of model legislation which can be adopted for use by States to implement some of the recommendations.