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November 2011- Brian Gale, MD, Dana Siegal, RN, CPHRM, Steven Davidson, MD, and David Juran, PhD's study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology demonstrates that 7-8% of US malpractice awards include a communications failure component.  This amount is increasing $4-6 million annually.  Read the abstract here.  Or read some of the media coverage: AMA News, AuntMinnie.com, The Advisory Board.
April 2010- Crittenden National Medical Underwriters Conference panel discussion on liability related to Failure to Communicate.  Watch the four-part video.
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Literature

Gale, B, Siegal, D, Davidson, S, Juran, D.  Failure to Notify Reportable Test Results: Significance in Medical Malpractice.  J Am Coll Radiol 2011;8:776-779.

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Wang, Amy et. al.  Association between industry affiliation and position on cardiovascular risk  with rosiglitazone: cross sectional systematic review.  BMJ 2010;340:c1344.

Raskin, Michael.  What we got here is failure to communicate.  Applied Radiology.  2010. 39:1-2.

Casalino,L. et. al. Frequency of Failure to Inform Patients of Clinically Significant Outpatient  Test Results. Arch Intern Med.
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