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The Relationship Between Medical Malpractice Litigation and Parent Reports of Patient Function Following Neonatal Brachial Plexus Palsy by Emily A. Eismann,

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1 The Relationship Between Medical Malpractice Litigation and Parent Reports of Patient Function Following Neonatal Brachial Plexus Palsy by Emily A. Eismann, Andrea Bauer, Scott H. Kozin, Emily Louden, and Roger Cornwall J Bone Joint Surg Am Volume 96(5):373-379 March 5, 2014 ©2014 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

2 Parent reports of patient function differed between medical malpractice litigation and non- litigation cohorts, matched on age and injury severity, for children with all types of neonatal brachial plexus palsy (Figs. 1-A, 1-B, and 1-C) and children with spec... Emily A. Eismann et al. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2014;96:373- 379 ©2014 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

3 Parents of children with neonatal brachial plexus palsy whose medical malpractice litigation was active reported their children to have worse pain (less comfort), as assessed by the PODCI, compared with parents whose litigation was closed, after controlling... Emily A. Eismann et al. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2014;96:373- 379 ©2014 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.

4 Parent reports of adolescent patient upper-extremity function (Fig. 3-A) and global function (Fig. 3-B), as assessed by the PODCI, differed from reports of the adolescents themselves in families that filed medical malpractice litigation but not in families... Emily A. Eismann et al. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2014;96:373- 379 ©2014 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc.


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