Here are seven practice settings with the highest rates of malpractice lawsuits filed against anesthesiologists:
• Healthcare organization — 75 percent
• Outpatient clinic — 74 percent
• Academic (non-hospital), research, military or government setting — 67 percent
• Office-based solo practice — 64 percent
• Office-based multispecialty group practice — 59 percent
• Hospital — 55 percent
• Office-based single-specialty group practice — 54 percent
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