Add to ORKGThis report discusses the medical malpractice system that has frequently been cited as a contributor to increasing health care costs and has been targeted in many health care reform proposals as a potential source of savings. The report first examines the nature of defensive medicine, adopting a working definition of defensive medicine that embraces the complexity of the problem from both the physician and broader public policy perspectives. Finally, it comments on the potential impact of a variety of medical malpractice reforms on the practice of defensive medicine
The theoretical prospects for medical practice policies to reform malpractice law by giving conclusi...
Few issues elicit more emotion from physicians than medical malpractice. The very word “malpractice”...
Context How often physicians alter their clinical behavior because of the threat of malpractice liab...
Defensive medicine is a significant force driving the high costs of healthcare systems and has a sub...
Malpractice liability systems exist, in part, to provide compensation for medical malpractice, corre...
In this paper we present the costs of defensive medicine in thirty-five clinical specialties to dete...
Many argue that incentive costs of the malpractice system, namely practices such as defensive medici...
A literature review was performed on the subject of defensive medicine, in order to gather informati...
For decades, “defensive medicine” has been the leading argument driving reforms of medical malpracti...
Defensive medicine occurs when doctors deviate from sound medical practice in an attempt to minimize...
In this paper we present the costs of defensive medicine in thirty-five clinical specialties to dete...
'Defensive medicine' is a potentially serious social problem: if fear of liability drives health car...
Positive defensive medicine occurs when physicians order additional tests or procedures primarily to...
Defensive medicine is the practice of diagnostic or therapeutic measures conducted primarily as a sa...
This report discusses the indirect cost of medical malpractice, commonly referred to as “defensive m...
The theoretical prospects for medical practice policies to reform malpractice law by giving conclusi...
Few issues elicit more emotion from physicians than medical malpractice. The very word “malpractice”...
Context How often physicians alter their clinical behavior because of the threat of malpractice liab...
Defensive medicine is a significant force driving the high costs of healthcare systems and has a sub...
Malpractice liability systems exist, in part, to provide compensation for medical malpractice, corre...
In this paper we present the costs of defensive medicine in thirty-five clinical specialties to dete...
Many argue that incentive costs of the malpractice system, namely practices such as defensive medici...
A literature review was performed on the subject of defensive medicine, in order to gather informati...
For decades, “defensive medicine” has been the leading argument driving reforms of medical malpracti...
Defensive medicine occurs when doctors deviate from sound medical practice in an attempt to minimize...
In this paper we present the costs of defensive medicine in thirty-five clinical specialties to dete...
'Defensive medicine' is a potentially serious social problem: if fear of liability drives health car...
Positive defensive medicine occurs when physicians order additional tests or procedures primarily to...
Defensive medicine is the practice of diagnostic or therapeutic measures conducted primarily as a sa...
This report discusses the indirect cost of medical malpractice, commonly referred to as “defensive m...
The theoretical prospects for medical practice policies to reform malpractice law by giving conclusi...
Few issues elicit more emotion from physicians than medical malpractice. The very word “malpractice”...
Context How often physicians alter their clinical behavior because of the threat of malpractice liab...