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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4794151/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26982056 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150523 |