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Doctors in recent years have admitted to and have been accused of prescribing additional tests or procedures to justify their care, strengthen support for their decisions or simply to corraborate their diagnosis. This defensiveness is a result of law suits, malpractice claims and the onslaught of external UR entities questioning care decisions. Defensive medicine is said to be one of the primary causes of the increasing cost of health care. ...
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| defensive medicine |
Physician practices just to reduce risk of a liability claim, eg, performing diagnostic tests of marginal value. Defensive medicine totals an estimated $20.7 billion. (AMA, 1993)
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