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The increasing prevalence of obesity has altered the practice of medicine and surgery, with the emergence of new operations and medications. We hypothesized that the landscape of medical malpractice claims has also changed.We queried the Physician Insurers Association of American database for 1990 through 1999 and 2000 through 2009 for cases corresponding to International Classification of Diseases,...
We hypothesized that the increasing body mass index of the population has affected general surgery malpractice claims.We queried the Physician Insurers Association of America database from 1990 to 1999 (ie, period 1) and 2000 to 2009 (ie, period 2) for claims associated with obesity and morbid obesity. We analyzed the error involved, injury severity, procedure, and outcome.Five hundred seventy-five...
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