The Swedish patient compensation system

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes Celia Moh Professor, Departments of Insurance and Health Care Systems, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Address correspondence to Professor Danzon at 204 Colonial Penn Center, 3641 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104–6218. This article is based, in part, on interviews with authorities at the Skandia Insurance Corporation, the Medical Responsibility Board, and leading hospital and academic personnel in Sweden. The author thanks Anders Anell, Sven‐Erik Bergentz, David Bergquist, Stefan Bjork, Carl Espersson, Ake Isacsson, Bjorn Lindgren, Ingmar Nygren, Carl Martin Roos, Arnold Rosoff, and Goran Skogh for providing information and for very helpful discussions. This research was supported by the Swedish Institute for Health Economics at Lund and by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation under Grant No. 18579. This support is gratefully acknowledged. All opinions and any errors herein are the author's. The exchange rate SEK 7 = $1 has been used throughout the article, which was roughly the rate prevailing until the end of 1992.