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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Jurisprudence > Malpractice > Defensive Medicine
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Preferred term

Defensive Medicine  

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  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Defensive Practice
  • Defensive Practices
  • Medicine, Defensive

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under MALPRACTICE 1975-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003675

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