Medical malpractice cases involving lack of access to dermatologists for incarcerated patients in the United States from 1982 to 2018

While prison medicine is a heavily researched area for quality improvement, little is known regarding prisoner access to dermatologists. The goal of this study was to characterize the claims related to a lack of dermatologist access in prison malpractice cases. We searched the LexisNexis Academic database of legal records from 1970 to 2018 using the terms “medical malpractice and dermatologist” to yield federal malpractice cases involving...