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PROF DAVID STUDDERT



Contact Details

Organization: Law, Population Health
Position: ARC FEDERATION FELLOWSHIP, DEPUTY HEAD OF SCHOOL OF POPULATION HEALTH
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Work: 83440646
Building: 207 Bouverie St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Law, health policy, public health, empirical legal research Australia, United States of America

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Science Harvard University 01-Nov-1998
Masters of Public Health Harvard University 07-Jun-1995
Law University of Melbourne 01-Mar-1992
Bachelor of Arts University of Melbourne 01-Mar-1992

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize AcademyHealth Alice S Hersh Award 01-Jul-2004

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Using Law To Improve Population Health and the Quality of Health Care Services Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Federation Fellowships 15/01/2007
COMPLIANCE WITH ADVERSE EVENT REPORTING REQUIREMENTS IN CANCER CLINICAL TRIALS Chief Investigator DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE Research Project Grants (NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH) 01/03/2007
Drug Companies, their Patenting Strategies and High-Cost Pharmaceuticals: An Empirical Investigation Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009
When informed consent goes poorly: A descriptive study of health care complaints and medical negligence claims Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2009

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
CONSULTANCY AGREEMENT - DESIGNING A RELIABLE SYSTEM OF MEDICAL JUSTICE Chief Investigator HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 15/01/2007
LEGAL BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE OPEN DISCLOSURE POLICIES IN AUSTRALIA Chief Investigator AUST COMM ON SAFETY & QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE 17/03/2008
LEGAL WORK TO ENSURE THE CLEAREST POSSIBLE PATH FOR OPEN DISCLOSURE IN AUSTRALIA Chief Investigator AUST COMM ON SAFETY & QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE 03/12/2008
EPIDEMIOLOGY OF CORONIAL INQUESTS Chief Investigator VIC INST OF FORENSIC MEDICINE 26/10/2009
DECLINE IN THE INCIDENCE OF SUICIDE DUE TO NON-DRUG POISONINGS. 2001-06 Chief Investigator VIC INST OF FORENSIC MEDICINE 26/10/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Victims of violence among Indigenous mothers living with dependent children
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 191
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 481-485
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Publications in 2007

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  • Geographic Variation in Informed Consent Law: Two standards for disclosure of treatment risks.


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 103-124
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  • Changes in physician supply and scope of practice during a malpractice crisis: Evidence from Pennsylvania
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: w425-w435
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  • Current Concepts:  Disclosing Harmful Medical Errors to Patients
    Year: 2007
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 356
    Page numbers: 2713-2719
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  • Disclosure of medical injury to patients:  An improbable risk management strategy
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 215-226
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  • Medical errors involving trainees:  A study of closed malpractice claims from five insurers
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Archives of Internal Medicine
    Volume: 167
    Page numbers: 2030-2036
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  • Missed and delayed diagnoses in the emergency department:  A study of closed malpractice claims from four liability insurers
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Annals of Emergency Medicine
    Volume: 49
    Page numbers: 196-205
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  • Patterns of communication breakdowns resulting in injury to surgical patients
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of the American College of Surgeons
    Volume: 204
    Page numbers: 530-533
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  • Patterns of technical error among surgical malpractice claims:  An analysis of strategies to prevent injury to surgical patients
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Annals of Surgery
    Volume: 246
    Page numbers: 705-711
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  • Regulatory and judicial oversight of nonprofit hospitals
    Year: 2007
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 356
    Page numbers: 625-631
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  • Role of professional organizations in regulating physician expert witness testimony
    Year: 2007
    Journal: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
    Volume: 298
    Issue: 24
    Page numbers: 2907-2909
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  • Who pays for medical errors?  An analysis of adverse event costs, the medical liability system, and incentives for patient safety improvement
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 835-860
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Liability, patient safety, and defensive medicine:  What does the future hold?
    Year: 2006
    Book: Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • The medical malpractice system: Structure and performance
    Year: 2006
    Book: Medical Malpractice and the U.S. Health Care System: New Century, Different Issues
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • Claims, errors, and compensation payments in medical malpractice litigation


    Year: 2006
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 354
    Page numbers: 2024-2033
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  • Obesity:  Public health law's new frontier


    Year: 2006
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 354
    Page numbers: 2601-2610
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  • Analysis of surgical errors in closed malpractice claims at four insurers
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Surgery
    Volume: 140
    Page numbers: 25-33
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  • Characteristics of physician experts who testify frequently in malpractice litigation over severe birth injuries
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Obstetrics and Gynecology
    Volume: 108
    Page numbers: 273-279
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  • Claiming behavior in a no-fault system of medical injury:  A descriptive analysis of claimants and non-claimants
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Medical Journal of Australia
    Volume: 185
    Page numbers: 203-207
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  • Health courts and accountability for patient safety
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Milbank Quarterly
    Volume: 84
    Page numbers: 459-482
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  • Incidence, patterns, and prevention of wrong-site surgery
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Archives of Surgery
    Volume: 141
    Page numbers: 353-357
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  • Missed and delayed diagnoses in the ambulatory setting
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine
    Volume: 145
    Page numbers: 488-496
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  • Patients' motives for medico-legal action following medical injury in New Zealand
    Year: 2006
    Journal: CMAJ
    Volume: 175
    Page numbers: 889-894
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  • Relationship between adverse events and quality of care complaints in New Zealand:  A descriptive analysis of complainants and non-complainants
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Quality and Safety in Health Care
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 17-22
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  • Will physician-level clinical performance measures increase risks of malpractice litigation?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
    Volume: 295
    Page numbers: 1831-1834
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Defensive medical practice by physicians at high risk of malpractice litigation


    Year: 2005
    Journal: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
    Volume: 293
    Page numbers: 2609-2617
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  • Academic medical centers' standards for clinical-trial agreements with industry
    Year: 2005
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 352
    Page numbers: 2202-2210
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  • Accidental deaths, saved lives, and improved quality
    Year: 2005
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 353
    Page numbers: 1405-1409
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  • Clinical investigators' views of ethical standards for industry-sponsored clinical trials
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Accountability in Research: policies and quality assurance
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 163-191
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  • Clinical trial registries:  A reform that is past due
    Year: 2005
    Journal: American Journal of Law & Medicine
    Volume: 33
    Issue: Winter
    Page numbers: 811-820
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  • Effects of a malpractice crisis on specialist supply and patient access to care
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Annals of Surgery
    Volume: 242
    Page numbers: 621-628
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  • Emerging physician responses to the malpractice crisis
    Year: 2005
    Journal: American Journal of Law & Medicine
    Volume: Fall
    Page numbers: 416-428
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  • External review of coverage denials in managed care
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 449-468
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Publications in 2004

Book Chapters

  • Medical malpractice
    Year: 2004
    Book: Medical Malpractice: A Physician's Sourcebook
    Publisher: Humana Press(New Jersey)
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  • No-fault compensation for medical injuries:  The prospect for error prevention
    Year: 2004
    Book: The Patient Safety Handbook
    Publisher: Jones and Bartlett(Sudbury)
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  • On selling "no-fault"
    Year: 2004
    Book: Accountability Patient Safety and Policy Reform
    Publisher: Georgetown University Press(Washington DC)
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Journal Articles

  • A quiet revolution:  Law as an agent of health systems change
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 29-42
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  • Are damages caps regressive?  A study of jury verdicts
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 54-67
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  • Caring for patients in a malpractice crisis:  Physician satisfaction, the physician-patient relationship, and quality of care
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 23
    Page numbers: 42-53
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  • Decision making and satisfaction with care in the pediatric ICU:  Findings from a controlled clinical trial
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 40-47
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  • Disputes over coverage of emergency department services:  A study of two health maintenance organisations
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Annals of Emergency Medicine
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 155-162
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  • Financial conflicts of interest between physicians and pharmaceutical companies:  Self-regulation in the shadow of federal prosecution
    Year: 2004
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 351
    Page numbers: 1891-1900
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  • Medical malpractice
    Year: 2004
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 350
    Page numbers: 283-292
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  • Nursing home litigation and tort reform:  A case for "Exceptionalism"
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Gerontologist
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 588-595
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  • Professional liability issues in graduate medical education
    Year: 2004
    Journal: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
    Volume: 292
    Page numbers: 1051-1056
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  • The pharmaceutical industry versus Medicaid:  What limits on state initiatives to control prescription drug costs?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 350
    Page numbers: 608-613
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Risk factors for retained instruments and sponges after surgery


    Year: 2003
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 348
    Page numbers: 229-235
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  • Analysis of errors reported by surgeons at three teaching hospitals
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Surgery
    Volume: 133
    Page numbers: 614-617
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  • Conflict in the care of patients with prolonged stay in the ICU: Types, sources and predictors
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Intensive Care Medicine
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 1489-1497
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  • Consumer protection in managed care:  Enrollee appeals of pre-service coverage denials at two HMOs
    Year: 2003
    Journal: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
    Volume: 289
    Page numbers: 864-870
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  • Hospital behaviour in a tort crisis:  Observations from Pennsylvania
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 225-233
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  • Hospital disclosure practices:  Results of a national survey
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 73-83
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  • Impact of the National Practitioner Data Bank on resolution of malpractice claims
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Inquiry
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 283-294
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  • Managing care:  Utilization review in action at two capitated medical groups
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: Jan-June
    Page numbers: W3275-W3282
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  • Medical monitoring for pharmaceutical injuries:  Tort law for the public's health?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
    Volume: 289
    Page numbers: 889-894
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  • Nature of conflict in the care of pediatric intensive care patients with prolonged stay
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Pediatrics
    Volume: 112
    Page numbers: 553-558
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  • Reduced medical-legal risk by optimal obstetrical clinical pathway implementation:  A case-control study
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Obstetrics and Gynecology
    Volume: 101
    Page numbers: 751-755
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  • Results of a controlled clinical trial on care improvement for the critically ill
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Critical Care Medicine
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 2107-2117
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  • The Leapfrog standards:  Ready to jump from marketplace to courtroom?
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 46-59
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  • The McLawsuit:  The fast food industry and legal accountability for obesity
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 22
    Page numbers: 207-216
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  • The new medical malpractice crisis
    Year: 2003
    Journal: New England Journal of Medicine
    Volume: 348
    Page numbers: 2281-2284
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  • The rise of litigation in human subjects research
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine
    Volume: 139
    Page numbers: 40-45
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  • The rise of nursing home litigation:  Findings from a national survey of attorneys
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 219-229
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • What have we learned since the Harvard Medical Practice Study?
    Year: 2002
    Book: Medical Error: What Do We Know? What Do WE Do?
    Publisher: Jossey-Bass(San Francisco)
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Journal Articles

  • Charges of HIV discrimination in the workplace: The Americans With Disabilities Act in action.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: American Journal of Epidemiology
    Volume: 156
    Page numbers: 219-229
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  • Patients in conflict with managed care:  A profile of appeals in two HMOs
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Health Affairs
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 189-196
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  • Personal choices of health insurance by managed care experts
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Medical Care
    Volume: 40
    Page numbers: 375-386
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  • The reliability of medical record review for estimating adverse event rates
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine
    Volume: 136
    Page numbers: 812-816
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