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The Ecology of Defensive Medicine and Malpractice Litigation

Using an evolutionary game, we show that patients and physicians can interact with predator-prey relationships. Litigious patients who seek compensation are the ‘predators’ and physicians are their ‘prey’. Physicians can adapt to the risk of being sued by performing defensive medicine. We find that...

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Publicat a:PLoS One
Autors principals: Antoci, Angelo, Fiori Maccioni, Alessandro, Russu, Paolo
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: Public Library of Science 2016
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4794151/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26982056
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150523
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