Compensation: More painful than surgery?
Professor Ian Harris, an orthopedic surgeon and researcher from Sydney, led a team in reviewing the impact of compensation on surgical outcomes. The team looked at all the research papers assessing outcomes from surgery that noted whether the patient was treated under a compensation system or not. Across the 200 or so relevant studies, there was information on approximately 20,000 patient results. Approximately 7,000 were treated und...
Published 13 July, 2009 | Updated 02 February, 2016