Managing medical indemnity: must we choose between  quality assurance and risk management?

Nisselle, Paul

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06173.x

Topics

Health services administration

Ethics and law

To focus solely on reducing error may inadvertently reduce the quality of care

Elwood, VIC.

Correspondence:

Competing interests:

The author was the Australasian Secretary of the Medical Protection Society, 1989–1998, and the Chief Executive of the Medical Indemnity Protection Society (MIPS), 1998–2003. Since resigning from MIPS, he has been a consultant to a range of organisations, including the Medical Defence Association of Victoria.

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