• Telephone transcript - February 10, 2005
  
  
• News release: Medical Liability System Hinders Improvements In Patient Safety: Joint Commission Expert Panel Offers Solutions To Crisis
  
  
• Health Care At The Crossroads: Strategies for Improving the Medical Liability System and Preventing Patient Injury (Requires Adobe Reader)
  
  
• Executive Summary - Health Care at the Crossroads: Strategies for Improving the Medical Liability System and Preventing Patient Injury (Requires Adobe Reader)
  
  
• Making the Medical Liability System Work: Recommendations
  
  
• Medical Liability - At A Glance
  

Speakers

• Dennis S. O'Leary, M.D., President, Joint Commission
  
  
• Eric B. Larson, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.P., Director, Center for Health Studies Group Health Cooperative
  
  
• Randall R. Bovbjerg, J.D., Principal Research Associate, Health Policy Center, The Urban Institute
  
  
• Susan Sheridan, M.I.M., M.B.A., Co-Founder, Consumers Advancing Patient Safety
  
  
• Alan C. Woodward, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., President, Massachusetts Medical Society
  
  
• Philip K. Howard, Chair, Common Good and Vice-Chairman, Covington & Burling
  
  
• Media Contact List

Additional Resources

• Principles for the Construct of Pay-for-Performance Programs
  
  
• Facts about the National Patient Safety Goals
  
  
• Facts about Patient Safety
  
  
• Facts about Public Policy Initiatives
  
  
• Facts about the Joint Commission