Malpractice liability and defensive medicine: a national survey of neurosurgeons. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: Concern over rising healthcare expenditures has led to increased scrutiny of medical practices. As medical liability and malpractice risk rise to crisis levels, the medical-legal environment has contributed to the practice of defensive ...
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The current state of defensive medicine and its association with empathy: a cross-sectional study among graduate students in Guangxi, China [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationBackground Defensive medicine arises partly from strained physician–patient relationships and concerns related to medico-legal issues. While most existing research has focused on practicing physicians, relatively little is known about defensive medicine ...
Yi Chen +9 more
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Defensive Medicine in an Emergency Department: The Overuse of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Testing [PDF]
LifeIntroduction: Cardiac troponin I is routinely measured in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome. However, when a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) test is ordered without a clear clinical indication, unexpectedly elevated levels can
Mohammed Hani Sayyad +15 more
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Defensive Medicine: A Case and Review of Its Status and Possible Solutions [PDF]
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2019 Malpractice liability systems exist, in part, to provide compensation for medical malpractice, corrective justice for those injured by it, and to incentivize quality care by punishing substandard care.
Eric D. Katz
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The Chinese version of Defensive Medicine Scale (DMS): reliability and validity test among physicians [PDF]
BMC PsychologyBackground Physicians are inclined to resort to defensive medicine (DM) for self-protection due to the increasing potential risk of medical litigation. DM is globally prevalent and has become an impediment to the development of healthcare. However, there
Zhiguang Fan +3 more
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Defensive medicine in the emergency department. The clinicians’ perspective
Emergency Care Journal, 2016 The overuse of medical services is regarded as a growing problem in Western countries, accounting for up to 30% of all delivered care, and carrying a higher risk of morbidity and mortality.
Gianfranco Cervellin, Mario Cavazza
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Effects of defensive medicine practices on health care in southeast Turkey [PDF]
, 2022 Aim: In our country, the stress experienced by physicians due to their working conditions and intense workload plays a role in the formation of medical errors, therefore, physicians want to protect themselves from litigation processes with defensive ...
Samican ÜNAL +5 more
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Defensive medicine in primary health care [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2018 Jesper Lykkegaard +3 more
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Defensive medicine in general surgery: a Questionnaire study in Turkey [PDF]
, 2021 This study investigated the effects of defensive medicine on the practice of physicians in general surgery Methods: A questionnaire consisting of 30 questions titled “Defensive Medicine in General Surgery” was administered to 229 physicians in general ...
Kebabçı, Eyüp, Ekizoğlu, Oğuzhan
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