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- Title
The Intra-Hospital Medical Dispute Burden and Capacities: A Nationwide Survey in Taiwan.
- Authors
Chia, Wen-Chun; Chen, Li-Sheng; Wang, Sen-Te
- Abstract
(1) Background: Medical disputes have long been resolved via lawsuits. Alternative dispute resolutions have been promoted for their benefits and win–win results. This study aims to investigate Taiwanese hospital medical dispute capacities and burdens. (2) Methods: This study used 2015 nationwide questionnaire data. The number and value of medical disputes that occurred in 2014 was examined to evaluate hospitals' capabilities. Poisson regressions were used to determine the impact of coping abilities on the incidence of disputes and the associated compensation. (3) Results: The response rate of the questionnaire was 90%. Hospital features associated with higher medical disputes incidence included those of a scale ≤ 100 or 200–499 and having a dispute–inform process of over 4 h. In contrast, hospitals whose compensation fund was solely based on medical liability insurance reported less medical dispute incidence. The features associated with higher compensation were lack of continuing training and having a dispute–inform process over 4 h. In contrast, hospitals with standard operating procedures for in-hospital mediation and solicitude paid lower compensation. (4) Conclusions: Hospitals with quicker response times experienced fewer medical disputes and paid lower compensation. Dispute coping skills, other than reaction time, were more visible in compensation bargaining, but were not significantly correlated with incidence.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; HOSPITALS; INSTITUTIONAL cooperation; REGRESSION analysis; LEGAL liability; CONFLICT (Psychology); SURVEYS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; DISPUTE resolution; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; DAMAGES (Law); DATA analysis software
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2023, Vol 11, Issue 15, p2121
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare11152121