Clinical Risk Management: What measures are available to hospital managers in order to control the frequency of clinical negligence claims and their ultimate cost? To what extent can they transfer that risk to others?

Essay from the year 1998 in the subject Medicine - Hospital Environment, Clinical Medicine, grade: 1.7, University of Nottingham, language: English, abstract: The purpose of the present paper is to examine measures, available to hospital managers to control the frequency of clinical negligence claims and their ultimate cost. Moreover, the extent to which hospital managers can transfer that risk to others is inv