title: Patient safety--what claims against the NHS can teach us.
abstract: The study, first published in 2004, looks at databases on clinical negligence litigation, what kind of claims for clinical negligence there have been, and studies cases in different settings such as general practice, general surgery and medicine, psychiatry and obstetrics.
authors.affiliation: Professor of General Practice, School of Community-based Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester.
authors.forename: Aneez
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Esmail
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007345:Insurance Claim Review; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom