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Descriptor English: Defensive Medicine
Descriptor Spanish: Medicina Defensiva
Descriptor medicina defensiva
Entry term(s) práctica defensiva
Scope note: Alteraciones de la forma de la práctica médica inducida por la amenaza de responsabilidades, con el fin primordial de evitar las denuncias y también de disponer de una buena defensa legal en el caso de que se llegue a las mismas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Medicina Defensiva
Descriptor French: Médecine défensive
Entry term(s): Defensive Practice
Defensive Practices
Medicine, Defensive
Tree number(s): I01.880.604.583.524.300
N03.706.535.606.300
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003675
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.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under MALPRACTICE 1975-90
History Note: 91(75); was see under MALPRACTICE 1975-90
Entry Version: DEFENSIVE MED
DeCS ID: 3688
Unique ID: D003675
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1974/11/11
Revision Date: 1990/05/13
Defensive Medicine - Preferred
Concept UI M0005749
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.
Preferred term Defensive Medicine
Entry term(s) Defensive Practice
Defensive Practices
Medicine, Defensive



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