Pediatric Retinoblastoma Medical Malpractice Litigation Cases, 2023

Thirteen medical malpractice cases involving pediatric retinoblastoma were analyzed from the Westlaw Campus Research Legal Database from its inception to August 2023. The dataset includes demographic information for 14 patients, defendant specialties, case locations, and outcomes. It was created by Victoria Miller and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing defendant specialty patterns in malpractice litigation based on the reported involvement of pediatrics and family medicine.
• Studying the demographic distribution of plaintiffs based on the reported patient gender and sibling cases.
• Investigating common allegations in retinoblastoma litigation based on the described failure to diagnose and failure to inform about genetic risks.

Strengths

• Includes 13 specific legal cases with 14 patient records.
• Contains detailed case attributes such as defendant specialty, state, and outcome as described in the study.
• Data is focused on a specific, rare medical condition (pediatric retinoblastoma).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (5.5 KB), indicating a limited scope of 13 cases.

Provenance

Source

Westlaw Campus Research Legal Database.

Collection Method

Cases were searched and included if they involved a medical malpractice complaint related to retinoblastoma in a pediatric patient.

Time Range

Database inception to August 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 17:25:55; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cases from the United States (specific states mentioned in results).