1. Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC). Understanding medical errors. In: Doing What Counts for Patient Safety: Federal Actions to Reduce Medical Errors and Their Impact. Washington, DC: QuIC; 2000. http://www.quic.gov/report/mederr4.htm. Accessed May 3, 2012.
2. Institute of Medicine medical error figures are not exaggerated;Leape;JAMA,2000
3. To err is human: building a safer health system in 1999;Stefl;Frontiers Health Serv Manage.,2001
4. United States General Accounting Office. Medical liability: impact on hospital and physician costs extends beyond insurance. http://www.gao.gov/assets/230/221826.pdf. Accessed April 20, 2013.
5. On average, physicians spend nearly 11 percent of their 40-year careers with an open, unresolved malpractice claim;Seabury;Health Aff (Millwood),2013