title: Enacting litigious environments: litigation and Florida's nursing homes.
abstract: This article examines how different for-profit nursing home facilities with varying levels of lawsuit risk responded to the litigious environment existing in Florida during 1999. Specifically, this article considers the question: How do nursing home staffs differ in their views of litigation risks and their reactions to those perceived risks? To answer this question, this study examined selected Florida facilities from a large, multinational, for-profit long-term-care chain.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Services Administration, College of Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
authors.forename: Christopher E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: J Stuart
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Bunderson
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005431:Florida; D006269:Health Facilities, Proprietary / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006270:Health Facility Administrators / Q000523:psychology; D006302:Health Services Research; D016365:Liability, Legal / Q000191:economics; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D012308:Risk Management; D012931:Social Environment