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Factors associated with defensive medicine practice in United Arab Emirates: A cross-sectional study with multivariate analysis.
Medicine (Baltimore)
November 2024
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Health services institutes worldwide are trying to reduce defensive medical practice to limit its negative impact on patient care. We evaluated the factors associated with this defensive medical practice among medical professionals in the United Arab Emirates. This study deployed multivariate logistic regression analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCall for Reforms in the NEET-UG Examination (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test - Undergraduate): Addressing Human Resources in Health for India, the World's Most Populous Country.
J Family Med Prim Care
December 2024
Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Academy of Family Physicians of India, New Delhi, India.
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Undergraduate (NEET-UG) in India serves as a unified admission examination for undergraduate medical courses, aiming to standardize assessment across diverse educational backgrounds. Despite its goals, NEET-UG has faced criticism over fairness, excessive reliance on coaching, and its impact on students' holistic development. The article reviews the limitations of the current NEET-UG format and proposes reforms, emphasizing the need to align the syllabus more closely with medical requirements by reducing physics and chemistry content and prioritizing biology.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImproving surgical quality of care: learning from 8,331 surgical medical malpractice cases.
Front Med (Lausanne)
December 2024
School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China.
Objective: This study aimed to analyze the characteristics of surgical litigation cases and the risk factors that contribute to catastrophic compensation.
Methods: We downloaded and retrieved all cases related to surgical litigation cases from the China Jufaanli Database between 2008 and 2023. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was employed to identify independent risk factors that may contribute to catastrophic compensation.
Objective: Ensuring uniformity of forensic medical expertise in cases related to the improper provision of medical care; reducing the load on public forensic expert institutions by reducing the number of repeated examinations; raising the authority of forensic medical expertise service via introducing a unified approach to assessing the presence and nature of cause and effect relationship.
Material And Methods: The authors provide expert and court practice examples to show fundamental differences in forensic medical assessment of causal relations of improper provision of medical care with an adverse outcome. A focus is given to the court's assessment of expert opinions in a criminal process.
Policy Options for Reducing Defensive Medicine Behaviors: A Multi-Method Study.
Med J Islam Repub Iran
July 2024
Department of Health Management, Policy and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Background: Defensive medicine (DM) refers to taking or not taking clinical actions, mainly to prevent legal or reputational consequences. It increases patient and health system costs and threatens patient safety. This study aimed to provide policy options to reduce DM behaviors and was conducted in two phases.
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