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
- 3.1 New claims, 2008–09
- 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
- 6.1 Overview of Accident and emergency claims
- 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
- Appendix 1: Background to the MINC collection
- References
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Appendixes