Summary
Positive defensive medicine describes an approach to healthcare that involves excessive testing, over-diagnosing and overtreatment. Negative defensive medicine, on the contrary, describes an approach where doctors avoid, refer or transfer high risk patients. This article in Patient Safety in Surgery examines how both defensive medicine approaches can contribute to medical errors.
Patient safety assurance in the age of defensive medicine: a review (17 February 2022)
https://pssjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13037-022-00319-8
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