Abstract
(Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2016;545–546) Malpractice lawsuits can influence patient care, since the burden of professional liability could change the way physicians decide to manage care. Already, liability suits have caused 22% of providers to reduce their patient volume when it comes to high-risk obstetric cases, 14% to discontinue their obstetric practice altogether, and 9% to reduce all obstetric patient volume. Considering this correlation, the authors of this paper attempted to determine how the phenomenon of professional liability might impact the rate of cesarean delivery.
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