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Office-Based Anesthesia: Lessons Learned from the Closed Claims Project
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Karen B. |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | June 2001 Volume 65 Number 6 9 T tremendous growth of office-based anesthesia has been accompanied by concerns for patient safety. This concern has been escalated by poignant media reports of tragedies that may have been precipitated because the physician’s office lacked the same resources (i.e., personnel, equipment, drugs, administrative policies and facilities) that are present in an ambulatory surgical center or hospital. Therefore, we examined ASA’s Closed Claims Project database to compare closed malpractice claims against anesthesiologists for adverse events after officebased anesthesia compared to anesthesia and surgery in other ambulatory surgical settings. Nonoperative pain management-related claims were not considered for this analysis. The Closed Claims Project database consists of standardized summary data on anesthesia malpractice claims collected from 35 professional liability carriers that insure about half of the practicing anesthesiologists in the United States. Claims for dental damage are excluded from the database. There are currently 5,480 claims in the database including 753 claims for surgical anesthesia in the outpatient setting (ambulatory anesthesia claims) and 14 claims for surgical anesthesia in physician’s offices (office-based claims). Although presently there are only a small number of office-based claims (due to the threeto five-year delay for the claim to be resolved and appear in the database), some interesting trends are described below. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://depts.washington.edu/asaccp/sites/default/files/pdf/Click%20here%20for%20_29.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
