The occurrence, types, reasons, and mitigation strategies of defensive medicine among physicians: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Defensive Medicine (DM) concept refers to all medical care provided by physicians without increasing the benefits to the patient, the primary purpose of which is to prevent the risk of litigation. Although several studies have been published investigating the occurrence of DM around the world, no review conducted on DM among physicians. Therefore, this study aims to summarize and map the available evidence on occurrence, types of behaviors, and reasons for practicing of DM among physicians and possible solutions and strategies to reduce DM in the literature.

Methods

This is a scoping review in which we searched Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed in December 2021. Our target was original studies of any type that included data on DM among physicians between 2000 and

SUBMITTER: Kakemam E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9210603 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature