Spring 2004

Editor's Note
Richard Hsu

Features: Medical Error

A Policy of System Safety: Shifting the Medical and Legal Paradigms to Effectively Address Error in Medicine
Bryan A. Liang, MD, PHD, JD

Persisting Problems in Disclosing Medical Error
John D. Banja, PHD

Toward Candor after Medical Error: The First Apology Law
Jonathan R. Cohen, JD, PHD

Team Training and Resource Management in Health Care: Current Issues and Future Directions
David M. Musson, MD, PHD and Robert L. Helmreich, PHD

Personal Digital Assistants and the Reduction of Medical Error
Mark Rosenbloom, MD, MBA, FACEP and Edith C. Ransdell, MD, MPH

In Focus: Election 2004

Health Care for All of U.S.: Start with the States
Arthur Garson, Jr, MD, MPH

Interview with Nick Littlefield
Health Policy Advisor for John Kerry's Democratic Presidential Campaign

Interview with Megan Hauck
Deputy Policy Director of the Bush-Cheney 2004 Campaign

Health Highlights

Interview with Mark McClellan
Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and Former Member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers

Medicare, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and New Medical Technology
Peter J. Neumann, ScD

International

Policy for Informed Patients: A European Perspective
Don E. Detmer, MD, MA and Peter Singleton, MBA

Medical Errors: Responsibility and Informal Penalties
Sverre Grepperud

Junior Doctors and Mistakes: A Healthcare System Perfectly Designed for Mistakes by Interns and Residents
Merrilyn Walton BA, BSW,MSW
 
   
 

A Publication of the Harvard Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy.