Defensive Medicine
The Existence of Defensive Medicine in Cardiology:
... With a record payout of $23.5 million, a landmark court case in 1997 affirmed the growing magnitude of the malpractice crisis in the 1990s (Romano and Russakoff, 2004). The defendant, an obstetrician, was accused of ...
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REPORT TO THE MARYLAND HEALTH SERVICES COST REVIEW COMMISSION ON DEFENSIVE MEDICINE
... between defensive medicine and the implementation of global ...than defensive medicine per se) which result from the difference in financial incentives for prospective fixed payments versus ...
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The practice of defensive medicine among hospital doctors in the United Kingdom
... Defensive medicine is defined as a doctor’s deviation from their usual behavior or that considered good prac- tice, to reduce or prevent complaints or criticism by pa- tients or their families ...[8]. ...
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Rising rates of caesarean section: an indicator of defensive medicine practiced by obstetricians
... need of the hour is to create uniform guidelines of management for labourand practitioner should not be held responsible if their practices are in line of the guidelines laid. Doctors should be trained in terms of robust ...
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Concept of defensive medicine and litigation among Sudanese doctors working in obstetrics and gynecology
... practiced defensive medicine. Defensive medicine was reported in 96 % among the USA neurosurgeons and in Europe 94 % of the gastroenterologists reported practicing defensive ...
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Threat of Malpractice Lawsuit, Physician Behavior and Health Outcomes: Testing the Presence of Defensive Medicine
... “defensive medicine”, utilization of medical resources beyond its optimal level of ...of defensive medicine only for Medicaid patients with severe medical ...
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Financial effects of defensive medicine and medical malpractice insurance
... Medical malpractice costs , especially the steeply rising premiums , are often cited as a critical reason physicians practice defensive medicine.. The growing severity and frequen[r] ...
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The Importance of Negative Defensive Medicine in the Effects of Malpractice Reform
... into defensive medicine may benefit from developing and utilizing data linking measures of access alongside measures of malpractice pressure, health care spending, and quality in order to separate the ...
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Does Defensive Medicine Reduce Health Care Spending?
... This paper investigates whether malpractice risk faced by physicians, which originates pri- marily through the civil litigation system and state-level medical licensing boards, induces changes in the overall cost of ...
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Medical malpractice, defensive medicine and role of the “media” in Italy
... Defensive medicine is related to the crisis in the doctor- patient relationship, which has a long history and is primar- ily based on a reciprocity of understanding and fiduciary ...
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The Differential Effects of Malpractice Reform: Defensive Medicine in Obstetrics
... and health care spending. For this reason, the empirical literature can uncover seemingly mixed evidence of defensive medicine, even where it is widely practiced. This explanation may help to remove ...
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"Defensive Strategies against Takeovers in Countries of the European Community"
... s 1'tIE COUNTRIES 012 '1'IIE EIIROPEAN COMMIJNITY.. .T,B.s vary widely.[r] ...
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"Defensive instrumentalism" and the legacy of New Labour's cultural policies
... The legacy of New Labour, then, can in partly be seen as the entrenchment of this shift from state to market into the fabric of public policy making, which also explains the persistence, in the post-New Labour era, of ...
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The experiences of a group of parents with tactile defensive children
... tactile defensive child demands so much special attention that they do not have sufficient time to actualise their own potential, and this even impacts on their ca- ...
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How defensive were lending and aid to HIPC?
... This evidence certainly raises the issue of what motivated the increasing involvement of multilateral organizations in the HIPC debt problem. Humanitarian reasons certainly provide a possible explanation. A second ...
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Diversification of gut morphology in caterpillars is associated with defensive behavior
... into defensive weaponry that takes advantage of the allelochemicals inherent in their plant-based ...enhance defensive regurgitation ability is potentially a general phenomenon among the Lepidoptera and may ...
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The Influence of a Goalkeeper as an Outfield Player on Defensive Subsystems in Futsal
... Recently, the conception of hierarchically organized systems has been incorporated into studies of team sports (Corrêa, Alegre et al., 2012; Gréhaigne et al., 1997; Kelso, 2013). This conception provides an alternative ...
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Visual Information Processing During Defensive Movement
... The block and withdrawal are two distinguishable responses to stimuli used for protection. Withdrawing or moving away from a stimulus serves to increase the distance between the defender and stimulus before impact in an ...
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An Improvised Intrusion Detection System for MANETs – Defensive EAACK
... MANET does not require a fixed network infrastructure. The open medium and wide distribution of nodes make MANET vulnerable to security attacks. Hence, it is crucial to develop an efficient Intrusion Detection System. In ...
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Bacterial toxins: Offensive, defensive, or something else altogether?
... By examining the less offensive, non-tissue-destructive activities of bacterial toxins, we will discuss their more subtle roles in subverting host immunity defensive and will also discus[r] ...
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