Table 2.
Characteristics of medical malpractice claims according to guilty or acquitted verdictsa.
| All claims N = 40 | Guilty N = 5 | Acquitted N = 35 | Percentage of lost claimsb | ||
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| Incident-to-litigation closure (months) | 77.2 ± 34.1 | 95.4 ± 27.9 | 74.6 ± 34.5 | NA | |
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| Patient outcome | Death | 37 (92.5) | 5 (100.0) | 32 (91.4) | 13.5 |
| Grave injury | 3 (7.5) | 0 | 3 (8.6) | 0 | |
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| Medical institution | Medical center | 25 (62.5) | 2 (40.0) | 23 (65.7) | 8 |
| Regional hospital | 15 (37.5) | 3 (60.0) | 12 (34.3) | 20.0 | |
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| Appraisal result | Appropriate | 26 (65.0) | 0 | 26 (74.3) | 0 |
| Controversial | 7 (17.5) | 2 (40.0) | 5 (14.3) | 28.6 | |
| Negligent | 7 (17.5) | 3 (60.0) | 4 (11.4) | 42.9 | |
aData are presented as patient number (%) or mean ± standard deviation. bDefined as the number of loss claims divided by the number of total claims (%).