Medical Malpractice Concerns and Defensive Medicine | Zendy

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Medical Malpractice Concerns and Defensive Medicine

Author(s) -

Lisa M. Reisch,

Patricia A. Carney,

Natalia V. Oster,

Donald L. Weaver,

Heidi D Nelson,

Frederick A. Spencer,

Joann G. Elmore

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

american journal of clinical pathology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.859

H-Index - 128

eISSN - 1943-7722

pISSN - 0002-9173

DOI - 10.1309/ajcp80lyimooujif

Subject(s) - malpractice , medicine , defensive medicine , logistic regression , odds ratio , family medicine , odds , confidence interval , medical malpractice , medical emergency , pathology , political science , law

"Assurance behaviors" in medical practice involve providing additional services of marginal or no medical value to avoid adverse outcomes, deter patients from filing malpractice claims, or ensure that legal standards of care were met. The extent to which concerns about medical malpractice influence assurance behaviors of pathologists interpreting breast specimens is unknown.

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