Vocational and psychosocial predictors of medical negligence claims among Australian doctors: a prospective cohort analysis of the MABEL survey

OM Bradfield; M Bismark; A Scott; M Spittal

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Vocational and psychosocial predictors of medical negligence claims among Australian doctors: a prospective cohort analysis of the MABEL survey

OM Bradfield, M Bismark, A Scott, M Spittal

BMJ Open | BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2022

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055432

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Abstract

Objective To understand the association between medical negligence claims and doctors' sex, age, specialty, working hours, work location, personality, social supports, family circumstances, self-rated health, self-rated life satisfaction and presence of recent injury or illness. Design and setting Prospective cohort study of Australian doctors. Participants 12 134 doctors who completed the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life survey between 2013 and 2019. Primary outcome measure Doctors named as a defendant in a medical negligence claim in the preceding 12 months. Results 649 (5.35%) doctors reported being named in a medical negligence claim during the study period. In additi..

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Funding for Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) was provided by the Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council (2007-2016: 454799 and 1019605); the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (2008); Health Workforce Australia (2013); and, in 2017, the University of Melbourne, Medibank Better Health Foundation, the NSW Ministry of Health and the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services. In 2018, funding was provided by the Australian Government Department of Health.