IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ejw/journl/v20y2023i2p357-362.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A Rejoinder on the Effects of a Communication-and-Resolution Program on Hospitals' Malpractice Claims and Costs

Author

Listed:
  • Florence R. LeCraw
  • Daniel Montanera
  • Thomas A. Mroz

Abstract

In this issue of Econ Journal Watch, Maayan Yitshak-Sade, Allen Kachalia, Victor Novack, and Michelle M. Mello replied to our article in Econ Journal Watch critiquing their (and additional co-authors’) 2018 analysis of the “effects” of a communication-and-resolution program on outcomes at several hopspitals in Massachusetts. We appreciate their current statement that they did not intend to provide a causal analysis, and we make suggestions about better language they could have used to reduce our and others’ confusion about their intentions in their analysis appearing in Health Affairs. We also discuss the problems of ignoring estimates of outcome “spikes” that occur immediately after the institution of a new program. Finally, we comment on the scientific problems of, and researcher responsibilities from, having a data use agreement that does not permit outside analysts to evaluate the quality of one’s empirical results.

Suggested Citation

  • Florence R. LeCraw & Daniel Montanera & Thomas A. Mroz, 2023. "A Rejoinder on the Effects of a Communication-and-Resolution Program on Hospitals' Malpractice Claims and Costs," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 20(2), pages 357–362-3, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:ejw:journl:v:20:y:2023:i:2:p:357-362
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://econjwatch.org/File+download/1281/LeCrawEtAlSept2023.pdf?mimetype=pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://econjwatch.org/1330
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Causal inference; causal language; medical liability; medical error; methodological error; peer review; adverse medical outcomes;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • I11 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Analysis of Health Care Markets
    • I18 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ejw:journl:v:20:y:2023:i:2:p:357-362. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Jason Briggeman (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/edgmuus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.