Practice of defensive medicine among surgeons in Ethiopia: cross-sectional study
Abstract Background Defensive medicine is physicians’ deviation from standard medical care which is primarily intended either to reduce or avoid medico legal litigation. Although the Federal Ethics Committee review in Ethiopia has shown that applications for medical/surgical error investigation clai...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-11-01
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| Series: | BMC Medical Ethics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-023-00979-w |