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Navigating Risk Without Protection: Defensive Medicine Among General Practitioners in a Fragile Afghan Health System

2026-03-11

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Defensive medicine refers to clinical practices driven primarily by physicians’ concerns about potential complaints or accusations rather than patient benefit. While extensively studied in high-income countries, little is known about defensive medicine in fragile and low-resource health systems. This study aimed to examine the prevalence, perceived causes, and potential mit...

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Literature Corpus work: e13e1185-4e27-55a0-a49f-3752680808f9
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8837236/v1

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