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Defensive Medicine

Known as: Defensive Practice, Defensive Practices, Medicine, Defensive 
The alterations of modes of medical practice, induced by the threat of liability, for the principal purposes of forestalling lawsuits by patients as… 
National Institutes of Health

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2013
2013
Hope grounded in belief: Influences of reward for application and social cynicism on dispositional hope.
Two studies explore whether general beliefs about the social world or social axioms may be antecedents of dispositional hope… 
2012
2012
Major common bile duct injury and risk of litigation: a surgeon's perspective.
Review
2007
Review
2007
Malpractice and the quality of care in retinopathy of prematurity (an American Ophthalmological Society thesis).
PURPOSE A review of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) malpractice cases will identify specific, repetitive problems in the… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Anxiolytic-like effects of nociceptin/orphanin FQ in the elevated plus maze and in the conditioned defensive burying test in rats
2006
2006
British Modernism and Censorship
Introduction: the ethics of indecency 1. Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the censorship dialectic 2. Bernard Shaw's defensive laughter… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Formal observations and engagement: a discussion paper.
Formal observation of patients at risk is extremely common in acute psychiatric facilities. Effectively a form of physical… 
1997
1997
Defensive testing in Dutch family practice. Is the grass greener on the other side of the ocean?
BACKGROUND Ordering laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging can be part of the defensive behavior of the physician. How often… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Treatment Decisions for Terminally Ill Patients: Physicians' Legal Defensiveness and Knowledge of Medical Law
In this study, we investigated physicians' attitudes, knowledge, and reported practices regarding the effects of perceived legal… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Elicitation of intraspecific defensive behaviors in the rat by microinjection of picrotoxin, a γ-aminobutyric acid antagonist, into the Midbrain Periaqueductal gray matter
1966
1966
Need for approval, defensive denial, and sensitivity to cultural stereotypes.
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