What Are the Variables That Are Associated with the Patient's Wish to Sue His Physician in Patients with Acute and Chronic Pain?
ABSTRACT Objectives. Although there is limited research on patient attributes that may be related to reasons for launching a malpractice suit, no such research has been performed in acute pain patients (APPs) or chronic pain patients (CPPs). The objective of this study was then to develop some stat...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) Mass.), 2008-11, Vol.9 (8), p.1130-1142 |
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Objectives. Although there is limited research on patient attributes that may be related to reasons for launching a malpractice suit, no such research has been performed in acute pain patients (APPs) or chronic pain patients (CPPs). The objective of this study was then to develop some statistical models that would describe such patients’ attributes.
Methods. A statement about having thoughts of suing a physician (sue medical doctor [MD]) is the focus of this study, and was contained within the Battery for Health Improvement (BHI) research version (BHI‐R). The BHI‐R was administered to 1,487 community subjects (1,329 healthy and 158 nonhealthy) and 777 patients in rehabilitation of whom 326 were APPs, 341 were CPPs, and 110 had no pain. In addition, descriptive data, such as whether the patient had an attorney for a worker's compensation claim, was collected. The sue MD Likert scale responses were dichotomized, and the relative risks for the sue MD wish were calculated for the aforementioned groups utilizing the healthy community group as the reference group. With APPs and CPPs, those patients responding alternatively affirmatively to the sue MD statement were compared with those patients responding negatively on all available categorical variables and BHI 2 scales via appropriate statistics. If a BHI 2 scale was statistically significant at P |
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ISSN: | 1526-2375 1526-4637 |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2008.00484.x |