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Title : Awareness, benefits, harms of defensive medicine in different specialities among junior doctors in Kasralainy
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Abstract
Background: Defensive medicine (DM) has great impact on medical practice, health population and economics of our country. DM may provide enhanced quality of services with good explanations being given to patients resulting in increased patient satisfaction. On the other hand it might include suggesting unnecessary investigations, prescription of unnecessary treatments which may be expensive or dangerous for patients. The practice of defensive medicine (DM) is increasing worldwide. There is very limited data from the Arab world and Egypt. Aim of work: This study aims to evaluate awareness and practice of defensive medicine among junior doctors and detect relation between lawsuit and increasing practice of defensive medicine. Materials and Methods: This is cross sectional descriptive study that include 261 physician (residents & assistant lecturers) by interviewing them using a structured questionnaire. Collected data was interpreted and analyzed and were derived. Results: DM practice is highly affected by sociodemographic characteristics of study populations. Females always give extra details how to take medication properly and recommend Unnecessary (medication, investigation, referral) more than males. Physicians who are younger and have less medical experience often recommend Unnecessary (medication, investigation, referral) & often avoid high risk procedures more than those who are older and have more medical experience