Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Symbols
- Summary
- Claim numbers
- Claim costs and circumstances
- Length of time between health-care incident and claim closure
- Body section
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 Structure of this report
- 2 The Medical Indemnity National Collection
- 2.1 MINC (public sector)
- 2.2 MINC (private sector)
- 2.3 Claim management practices
- 2.4 Data items and definitions
- 2.5 Policy, administrative and legal context
- 2.6 Reporting claim characteristics
- 2.7 Health sector contextual information
- 3 Public sector medical indemnity claims for 2011-12
- 3.1 New claims
- 3.2 Current claims
- 3.3 Closed claims
- 4 Changes over time to public sector medical indemnity claims, 2007-08 to 2011-12
- 4.1 Claim numbers
- 4.2 New claims: clinical service context and primary incident/allegation type
- 4.3 New claims: principal clinician specialty
- 4.4 New claims: primary body function/structure affected
- 4.5 Current claims: reserve range and duration
- 4.6 Closed claims: cost and duration
- 4.7 Closed claims: mode of claim finalisation
- 4.8 Closed claims: extent of harm
- 4.9 Analysis over time of claim cohorts based on the year their reserve was set
- 4.10 Analysis over time of claim cohorts based on year of incident
- 5 Public and private sector medical indemnity claims for 2011-12
- 5.1 New claims: health service setting
- 5.2 New claims: primary incident/allegation type
- 5.3 New claims: specialty of clinician and primary incident/allegation type
- 5.4 New claims: patients' sex and age group and primary incident/allegation type
- 5.5 New claims: primary body function/structure affected
- 5.6 Current claims: duration and reserve range
- 5.7 Closed claims: duration and total claim size
- 5.8 Closed claims: total claim size and mode of finalisation
- 5.9 Closed claims: total claim size and health service setting
- 5.10 Closed claims: total claim size and specialty of clinician
- 5.11 Closed claims: total claim size and extent of harm
- 6 Public and private sector medical indemnity claims, 2007-08 to 2011-12
- 6.1 Claim numbers
- 6.2 New claims: health service setting and primary incident/allegation type
- 6.3 New claims: specialty of clinician and primary incident/allegation type
- 6.4 New claims: patients' sex and age group and primary incident/allegation type
- 6.5 New claims: primary body function/structure affected
- 6.6 Current claims: reserve range and duration
- 6.7 Closed claims: total claim size and duration
- 6.8 Closed claims: total claim size and mode of claim finalisation
- 6.9 Closed claims: total claim size and health service setting
- 6.10 Closed claims: total claim size and specialty of clinician
- 6.11 Closed claims: total claim size and extent of harm
- 1 Introduction
- End matter
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: MINC data items and key terms
- Appendix B: Data quality
- Medical Indemnity National Collection (Public Sector) 2011-12 data quality statement
- Medical Indemnity National Collection (Private Sector) 2011-12 data quality statement
- Statistics on 2011-12 Not known rates
- Appendix C: Public and private sector claim management practices
- Public sector
- Private sector
- Appendix D: Changes to jurisdiction, policy, administrative and legal features
- Northern Territory
- Appendix E: Health sector contextual information
- Health workforce
- Hospital services
- Appendix F: Claim cohort analysis data
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of boxes
- Appendixes