Concept information
Preferred term
Defensive Medicine
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- The alterations of modes of medical practice, induced by the threat of liability, for the principal purposes of forestalling lawsuits by patients as well as providing good legal defense in the event that such lawsuits are instituted.
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Defensive Practice
- Medicine, Defensive
Allowable Qualifier(s)
- classification (Qualifier)
- economics (Qualifier)
- education (Qualifier)
- ethics (Qualifier)
- history (Qualifier)
- instrumentation (Qualifier)
- legislation & jurisprudence (Qualifier)
- methods (Qualifier)
- organization & administration (Qualifier)
- standards (Qualifier)
- statistics & numerical data (Qualifier)
- trends (Qualifier)
In other languages
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French
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Pratique médicale défensive
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-R8ZDDB5D-5
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