title: Study points to the potential of arbitrating malpractice claims.
abstract: The Southern California Arbitration Project has demonstrated that arbitration may be applied successfully within the hospital segment of the health care industry. Although results are inconclusive at this time, arbitration may be a feasible alternative to litigation in securing expeditious and inexpensive resolution of malpractice cases. Of course, arbitration, in and of itself, is no panacea for the critical malpractice problem currently experienced throughout the nation; however, its potential for substantive contribution toward the resolution of malpractice claims is worthy of extensive experimentation and evaluation.
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006739:Hospital Administration; D008318:Malpractice; D013997:Time Factors