Modeling eligibility under national systems of compensation for treatment injury.
How can different schemes of compensation for treatment injury be evaluated? This article offers an empirical approach to assessment based on the simulation of alternative models of eligibility using real-world data. It draws on information about adverse events generated from a representative survey of public hospital admissions in New Zealand and classifies these under a range of eligibility criteria for different possible compensation systems. These are then evaluated according to a number of policy design considerations, using variables available from the New Zealand study.
Davis
Peter
P
University of Auckland.
Lay-Yee
Roy
R
Briant
Robin
R
Scott
Alastair
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D035881:Compensation and Redress; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D004608:Eligibility Determination; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008318:Malpractice / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008485:Medical Audit; D019300:Medical Errors; D008508:Medication Errors; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand; D013222:State Medicine