"Defensive Medicine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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.
| Descriptor ID |
D003675
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.604.583.524.300 N03.706.535.606.300
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| Concept/Terms |
Defensive Medicine- Defensive Medicine
- Defensive Practice
- Defensive Practices
- Medicine, Defensive
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Defensive Medicine" by people in Profiles.
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Rothberg MB, Class J, Bishop TF, Friderici J, Kleppel R, Lindenauer PK. The cost of defensive medicine on 3 hospital medicine services. JAMA Intern Med. 2014 Nov; 174(11):1867-8.
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Hussain S, Stefan M, Visintainer P, Rothberg M. Why do physicians prescribe stress ulcer prophylaxis to general medicine patients? South Med J. 2010 Nov; 103(11):1103-10.
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Budhraja V. Radiation exposure from medical imaging procedures. N Engl J Med. 2009 Dec 03; 361(23):2290-1; author reply 2291-2.