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Livio Garattini, Anna Padula. Defensive medicine in Europe: a ‘full circle’?The European Journal of Health Economics 2020; 21(4) doi: 10.1007/s10198-019-01151-1
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Merethe K. Andersen, Elisabeth Assing Hvidt, Kjeld M. Pedersen, Jesper Lykkegaard, Frans B. Waldorff, Anders P. Munck, Line B. Pedersen. Defensive medicine in Danish general practice. Types of defensive actions and reasons for practicing defensivelyScandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2021; 39(4) doi: 10.1080/02813432.2021.1970945
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Katja Goetz, Dorothee Oldenburg, Christina Jana Strobel, Jost Steinhäuser. The influence of fears of perceived legal consequences on general practitioners’ practice in relation to defensive medicine – a cross-sectional survey in GermanyBMC Primary Care 2024; 25(1) doi: 10.1186/s12875-024-02267-x
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Kirthika Ravi, Gerard P. Devnath, Ranjit I. James. Medical Negligence In India: Urgent Call For Comprehensive Data, Tort Reforms, And Cultural Transformation To Revitalize Healthcare SystemMedical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth 2024; 17(2) doi: 10.4103/mjdrdypu.mjdrdypu_601_23
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Livio Garattini, Anna Padula. Defensive medicine in Europe: a ‘full circle’?The European Journal of Health Economics 2020; 21(2) doi: 10.1007/s10198-019-01144-0
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Narcyz Ghinea. Do doctors have a responsibility to help patients import medicines from abroad?Journal of Medical Ethics 2023; 49(2) doi: 10.1136/medethics-2021-108027
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Doris Obimba, Aaron Shaykevich, Danielle R. Vitale, Christopher A. Rudmann, Ivayla I. Geneva. Procalcitonin-driven pneumonia management—are European and US antibiotic stewardship outcomes really different?The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 2026; 371(4) doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2025.12.781
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Rana Can Özdemir, Meryem Türkan Işık, Ahmet Aslan, Merih Ayaz. Factors Affecting Physician Fear of Malpractice and Defensive Medicine Practices: A Cross-sectional StudyJournal of Academic Research in Medicine 2024;  doi: 10.4274/jarem.galenos.2024.52386
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Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Ashir Shafique, Muhammad Saqlain Mustafa, Michael M. Covell, Afia Fatima, Hafiz Abdus Saboor, Abdullah Nadeem, Ather Iqbal, Muhammad Faheem Iqbal, Burhanuddin Sohail Rangwala, Muhammad Hassan Hafeez, Christian A. Bowers. Neurosurgical Malpractice Litigation: A Systematic Review and Meta-AnalysisWorld Neurosurgery 2024; 188 doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2024.04.112
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Laura M. Finucane, Susan M. Greenhalgh, Christopher Mercer, James Selfe. Defensive medicine: A symptom of uncertainty?Musculoskeletal Science and Practice 2022; 60 doi: 10.1016/j.msksp.2022.102558
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Johan Christiaan Bester. Defensive practice is indefensible: how defensive medicine runs counter to the ethical and professional obligations of cliniciansMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 2020; 23(3) doi: 10.1007/s11019-020-09950-7
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Christina J. Strobel, Dorothee Oldenburg, Jost Steinhäuser. Factors influencing defensive medicine‐based decision‐making in primary care: A scoping reviewJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 2023; 29(3) doi: 10.1111/jep.13799
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Henry Hojoon Seo, Michelle R. Shimizu, Blake M. Bacevich, Mohammadamin Rezazadehsaatlou, Anisha E. Gemmy, Young-Min Kwon. Medical Malpractice Litigation Following Revision Total Hip and Knee Joint Arthroplasty: A Review of Reported Legal Claims in the United States in the Past 20 YearsThe Journal of Arthroplasty 2025; 40(5) doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2024.10.137
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Livio Garattini, Anna Padula, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci. Defensive medicine: Everything and its oppositeEuropean Journal of Internal Medicine 2020; 74 doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2020.01.015
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Gianfranco Pischedda, Ludovico Marinò, Katia Corsi. Defensive medicine through the lens of the managerial perspective: a literature reviewBMC Health Services Research 2023; 23(1) doi: 10.1186/s12913-023-10089-3
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Inna V. Horislavska, Dariia O. Marits, Oleksii Yu. Piddubnyi, Daryna M. Shatkovska, Yaroslav M. Shatkovskiy. Tort Liability of Medical Workers in the Patient Safety System in Ukraine and the WorldInternational Journal of Criminology and Sociology 2022; 9 doi: 10.6000/1929-4409.2020.09.178
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Cigdem Baskici, Sude Nur Dagdevir. Experiences of physicians on defensive medicine: a qualitative study from TürkiyeInternational Journal of Healthcare Management 2025; 18(2) doi: 10.1080/20479700.2024.2310371
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Stephen Waite, Adrian Brady, Mark Graber, John D Banja, Brian Sheppard, Michael A Bruno. Diagnostic Excellence, Imaging Stewardship, and Re-establishing the Value Proposition in Radiology: A Look Back and a Way ForwardCureus 2026;  doi: 10.7759/cureus.103537
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M. Neuser, C. G. Birngruber, R. Dettmeyer. Medizinrecht im MedizinstudiumRechtsmedizin 2019; 29(6) doi: 10.1007/s00194-019-00353-4
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Zuzana Adamová, Hana Adamová. Defensive medicine in Czech surgical departmentsEuropean Surgery 2025; 57(4) doi: 10.1007/s10353-025-00873-2
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Juliette O’Connell. Defensive pharmacy practice: a gap in our understandingInternational Journal of Clinical Pharmacy 2021; 43(6) doi: 10.1007/s11096-021-01285-4
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Robert M. Kwee, Thomas C. Kwee. Medical disciplinary jurisprudence in alleged malpractice in radiology: 10-year Dutch experienceEuropean Radiology 2020; 30(6) doi: 10.1007/s00330-020-06685-0
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Timothy Craig Allen. Working to Solve the Thyroid Cytopathology ConundrumArchives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine 2019; 143(10) doi: 10.5858/arpa.2019-0290-LE
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Horislavska Inna. To the issue of tort liability of medical staff in the patient safety system in Ukraine and the worldLaw. Human. Environment 2019; 10(4) doi: 10.31548/law2019.04.012
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Livio Garattini, Marco Badinella Martini. Modeling European health systems: an ideal chain of servicesThe European Journal of Health Economics 2024; 25(2) doi: 10.1007/s10198-023-01651-1
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Ashwin Palaniappan, Frank Sellke. A review of medical malpractice cases in congenital cardiac surgery in the Westlaw database in the United States from 1994 to 2019Journal of Cardiac Surgery 2021; 36(1) doi: 10.1111/jocs.15109
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Maria Alejandra Rueda, Daniela Carrascal-Penaranda, José David Cardona Ortegón, Julián Dario Guerra Barón. Decision Making in Radiology: Beyond Clinical PerspectiveAcademic Radiology 2023; 30(8) doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2022.07.004
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Paolo Visci, Gianmarco Sirago, Annachiara Vinci, Francesco Calò, Francesco De Micco, Marcello Benevento, Biagio Solarino, Alessandro Dell’Erba, Davide Ferorelli. Navigating the landscape of legal medicine: a 4-year analysis of forensic consultations in an Italian hospitalFrontiers in Medicine 2025; 12 doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1521195
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Ankit Chaudhary, Vijay Kumar Barwal. Defensive Medicine in the Context of the Indian Health SystemIndian Pediatrics 2022; 59(11) doi: 10.1007/s13312-022-2649-4
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Caitlin Alsandria O’Hara, Nur Haidah Ahmad Kamal, En Ci Isaac Ong, De Wei Isaac Chung, Siew Ngan Faith Lim, Malcolm Ravindran Mahadevan. In my time: A qualitative exploration of the junior doctor experience in Singapore over the yearsAnnals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 2025; 54(9) doi: 10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.202594
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Zhiguang Fan, Xiaoli Shi, Minglu Xu, Hongjuan Wen. The Chinese version of Defensive Medicine Scale (DMS): reliability and validity test among physiciansBMC Psychology 2024; 12(1) doi: 10.1186/s40359-024-01957-6
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