Medical Malpractice Claims Involving Physicians in the Intensive Care Unit: A Cohort Study

The intensive care unit (ICU) is a fast-paced setting, in which physicians from different specialties work. The goal of this study is to understand whether characteristics of medical malpractice claims occurring in the ICU differ by physician specialty.A retrospective cohort study was performed using a national database called the Comparative Benchmarking System, which is operated by Harvard's malpractice insurer. Claims were included if the...