Table of contents

  • Preliminary materials
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Abbreviations
    • Symbols
    • Summary
      • Public sector medical indemnity claims for 2008–09
      • Claims opened between 2004–05 and 2008–09
      • Claims closed between 2004–05 and 2008–09
      • Accident and emergency claims
  • Body sections
    • 1 Introduction
    • 2 The collection
      • 2.1 Scope and context
      • 2.2 Policy, administrative and legal context
        • Claims management
      • 2.3 Data items
      • 2.4 Data coverage, completeness and quality
        • Data coverage and completeness
        • Missing data
        • Data quality
      • 2.5 Reporting the collection's claim characteristics
    • 3 Public sector medical indemnity claims for 2008–09
      • 3.1 New claims, 2008–09
        • Clinical service context
        • Geographic location
        • Specialties of clinicians
        • Primary incident/allegation type
      • 3.2 Current claims
        • Reserve range and duration
      • 3.3 Closed claims
        • Primary body function/structure affected
        • Extent of harm
        • Length and cost of claims
        • Mode of settlement
        • Claim payment details
        • Extent of harm and cost of claims
        • Clinical service context and cost of claims
    • 4 Changes over time to public sector medical indemnity claims, 2004–05 to 2008–09
      • 4.1 Claim numbers
      • 4.2 Clinical service context and principal clinician specialty
      • 4.3 Primary body function/structure affected and primary incident/allegation type
      • 4.4 Extent of harm
      • 4.5 Mode of settlement and claim size
    • 5 Primary incident/allegation information on public sector medical indemnity claims closed between 2004–05 and 2008–09
      • 5.1 Clinical service context
      • 5.2 Sex and age of claim subjects
      • 5.3 Cost of claims
    • 6 Accident and emergency claims, 2004-05 to 2008-09
      • 6.1 Overview of Accident and emergency claims
        • Clinical service context
      • 6.2 Principal clinician specialties
      • 6.3 Extent of harm, claim size and primary incident/allegation type
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: Background to the MINC collection
        • Background to the collection
        • Collaborative arrangements
        • Purposes of the collection
      • Appendix 2: MINC data items and key terms
      • Appendix 3: Policy, administrative and legal features in each jurisdiction
        • New South Wales
        • Victoria
        • Queensland
        • Western Australia
        • South Australia
        • Tasmania
        • Australian Capital Territory
        • Northern Territory
      • Appendix 4: Body function/structure categories
    • References
    • List of tables
    • List of figures