Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
      • Claims
      • Cost and duration
      • The alleged incidents and who was involved
  • Body section
    • Introduction
      • Background to the report
      • Collaborative arrangements
    • The collection
      • Data items and definitions
      • Claim management practices
      • Data completeness and Not known rates
    • Claims for 2009–10
      • Health service setting
      • Primary incident/allegation type
      • Specialty of clinician
      • Closed claims: extent of harm and specialty of clinician
    • Patients who were the subjects of claims
      • Sex and age group of claim subject
      • Primary incident/allegation type
      • Primary body function/structure affected
    • Administrative and financial characteristics
      • Duration of claims
      • Reserve range of current claims
      • Total claim size of closed claims
      • Mode of claim finalisation
      • Total claim size and health service setting
      • Total claim size and specialty of clinician
      • Total claim size and extent of harm
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Data items and definitions
      • Appendix 2: Data quality statements
      • Appendix 3: Public and private sector claim management practices
      • Appendix 4: Coding examples for some main data items
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures