*From the Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
†From the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
‡From the Law Offices of Williams and Hunt, Salt Lake City, Utah.
§From the Colorado Physicians Insurance Company, Denver, Colorado.
∥From the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Funding was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey.
Address correspondence to: Eric J. Thomas, MD, MPH, University of Texas, Houston Medical School, 6431 Fannin MSB 1.122, Houston TX 77030. E-mail: [email protected]
Received January 11, 1999; initial review completed March 22, 1999; accepted October 11, 1999.