A small number of physicians accounted for the majority of paid malpractice claims during a recent 10-year period, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine (2016;374:354-362).
Using data from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), investigators examined 66,426 claims against 54,099 physicians from Jan. 1, 2005, to Dec. 31, 2014. More than half the claims were accounted for by physicians in four specialty groups: internal medicine (15%),