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Doctors believe that disclosing mistakes would increase trust in the profession but this would come at the expense of more defensive practice, increased litigation and a worsening effect on medical regulation.
Defensive practice correlated strongly with respondents' lack of confidence in their liability insurance and perceived burden of insurance premiums.Defensive medicine is highly prevalent among physicians in Pennsylvania who pay the most for liability insurance, with potentially serious implications for cost, access, and both technical and interpersonal quality of care.
There has also been a move to more defensive practice and decision-making with the numbers of children with child protection plans increasing, a surge in the number of court proceedings to remove children from families and more children in local authority care.
This can come from patient pressure or defensive practice, an attempt to minimize all uncertainty as an assumed safeguard against litigation.
Communication openness was seriously jeopardised by the lack of trust between health workers and patients and, as a result, the defensive practice adopted by medical practitioners.
The rise in the caesarean section rate has been viewed as a form of defensive practice in a number of developed countries including the UK and the USA [ 31, 32].
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This is because Japanese management thinking has long since recognised that overstretched workers are more likely to make mistakes, to be less productive and creative, to learn less, and to be more prone to burnout and anxiety-driven defensive practices.
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