Defensive medicine in primary health care

Does Defensive Medicine Reduce Health Care Spending?

The medical community often argues that physician fear of legal liability increases health care spending. Theoretically, though, the effect could be positive or negative, and empirical evidence has supported both cases. Previous empirical work, however, has ignored the fact that physicians face risk from industry oversight groups like statelevel medical licensing boards in addition to civil lit...

Laboratory medicine in primary health care.

A LTHOUGH simple laboratory tests have been performed At'1.in primary health care for many years, recent technological developments have made it possible to do a much wider range of tests nearer the patient ('near patient testing').'-3 Many of these tests require little equipment and a non-technical person such as a nurse can often obtain a result within a few minutes. In the United States at l...

Public health medicine and primary care.

Primary Health Care and Narrative Medicine.

Primary health care has received a lot of attention since the Alma Ata Conference, convened by the World Health Organization in 1978. Key to the strategy to improve health care outlined at the Alma Ata conference is citizen participation in every phase of service delivery. Although the goals of primary health care have not been achieved, the addition of narrative medicine may facilitate these e...

What Distinguishes Preventive Medicine from Preventive Health Care in Health Care Systems?

Letter to Editor