Published research

CMPA research is published in peer-reviewed medical and science journals, and informs collaborative research initiatives.

Browse published articles and reports

• Physicians in practice
• Physicians in training (residents and fellows)
• Emergency medicine
• Obstetrics
• Surgery
• Other specialties

Physicians in practice

Published articles

• Beyond medical errors: Exploring the interpersonal dynamics in physician-patient relationships linked to medico-legal complaints
• Evaluating literature reviews conducted by humans versus ChatGPT: Comparative study
• Lessons learned from a retrospective analysis of medico-legal risks for physicians treating adolescents and young adults with medical complexity
• Strengthening the chain: A continuing medical education program for Test Results Follow-up
• The problem with ‘never events’
• Exploring the dynamics of physician-patient relationships: Factors affecting patient satisfaction and complaints
• Medico-legal risks of point-of-care ultrasound: a closed case analysis of Canadian Medical Protective Association medico-legal cases
• Medico-legal cases associated with older physicians’ cognitive ability to practice medicine
• Identifying a list of healthcare “never events” to effect system change: A systematic review and narrative synthesis
• Diagnostic delays in sepsis: Lessons learned from a retrospective study of Canadian medico-legal claims
• Defining healthcare never events to effect system change: A protocol for systematic review
• Physician questions and concerns related to COVID-19: A content analysis of advice calls to a medico-legal helpline
• Optimizing your diagnostic reasoning – Themes from CMPA medico-legal cases
• Using medicolegal data to support safe medical care: A contributing factor coding framework
• Improved hospital safety performance and reduced medicolegal risk: An ecological study using 2 Canadian databases

Physicians in training (residents and fellows)

Published articles

• Patterns and trends among physicians-in-training named in civil legal cases
• College complaints against resident physicians in Canada: A retrospective analysis of CMPA data from 2013 to 2017
• The medico-legal helpline: A content analysis of postgraduate medical trainee advice calls

Emergency medicine

Published articles

• HiQuiPs: Test Result Follow-up in the Emergency Department
• Resource issues in the emergency department
• Medico-legal issues related to emergency physicians’ documentation in Canadian emergency departments
• Medico-legal risk and use of medical directives in the emergency department

Obstetrics

Published articles

• Promoting best practices in Assisted Human Reproduction
• Quality improvement initiatives in areas of practice with high medical-legal risk in obstetrical care: A systematic review
• Implementing obstetrics quality improvement, driven by medico-legal risk, is associated with improved workplace culture
• A quality indicator framework for high-risk areas in obstetrical care

Reports

• Recommendations from a national panel on quality improvement in obstetrics
• Delivery in focus: Strengthening obstetrical care in Canada
• Obstetrics services in Canada: Advancing quality and strengthening safety

Surgery

Published articles

• Characteristics and contributing factors of diagnostic error in surgery: Analysis of closed medico-legal cases and complaints in Canada
• Trends and contributing factors in medicolegal cases involving spine surgery
• Medico-legal closed case trends in Canadian plastic surgery: A retrospective descriptive study
• Intraoperative injuries from abdominopelvic surgery: An analysis of national medicolegal data
• Surgical fires and burns: A 5-year analysis of medico-legal cases

Reports

• Surgical safety in Canada: A 10-year review of CMPA and HIROC medical-legal data
• Surgical safety checklists: A review of medical-legal data

Other specialties

Published articles

• Assessing adverse outcomes and learning needs in Canadian psychiatric independent medical examinations
• Medico-legal risk of infectious disease physicians in Canada: A retrospective review
• Family physicians’ questions about the COVID-19 pandemic: a content analysis of 2,272 helpline calls
• Medico-legal cases in breast imaging in Canada: A trend analysis
• Lessons learned from examination of Canadian medico-legal cases related to interventional therapies for chronic pain management
• Medico-legal cases involving cardiologists and cardiac test underuse or overuse
• Anesthesiology airway-related medicolegal cases from the Canadian Medical Protection Association