This form of malpractice, namely providing insufficient pills while stocks were sufficient, was also observed in a previous study by the authors in the same area [ 26].
Research is also needed in exploring the most effective techniques or combination of educational, deterrent and punitive techniques and machine detection tools to combat the use of online paraphrasing tools and article spinners and other forms of academic malpractice.
What sort of malpractice?
The authors suggested that such insufficient care could be considered "a form of medical malpractice".
Christine Lagarde said policies that restrict trade were a form of "economic malpractice" that would choke off growth, hit jobs and reduce wages.
The reader comes away with the overwhelming sense that an institutional, economic and almost philosophical form of medical malpractice has been unleashed upon psychiatric medicine, and it has condemned -- in the name of controlling costs -- thousands of patients to permanent illness.
Nevertheless, there are cases where the missed finding is clinically significant and where failure to report the finding can have adverse consequences for the patient as well as for the clinician, in the form of a malpractice suit.
Ethics refers to behaviour which in the presence of malpractice forms the basis of legislation (Regmi, 2011).
A study using a larger group of physicians might uncover additional forms of behavior that are affected by the risk of malpractice litigation, and conditional factors that may affect the relationship between physicians' malpractice litigation risk and behavior.
"Shot in the Arm for Tort Overhaul" (Nov. 17) said that when Congress convenes in January, medical malpractice and other forms of tort reform are likely to be "higher on the legislative agenda".
