defensive medicine

Preferred Label : defensive medicine;

MeSH definition : 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.;

MeSH synonym : defensive practice; defensive practices; medicine, defensive;

MeSH annotation : SPEC; SPEC qualif; DF: DEFENSIVE MED;

Details

Origin ID

D003675;

UMLS CUI

C0011143;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Record concept(s)
- defensive medicine [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]

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