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  2. Defensive medicine - Wikipedia

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    Defensive medicine takes two main forms: assurance behavior and avoidance behavior.Assurance behavior involves the charging of additional, unnecessary services to a) reduce adverse outcomes, b) deter patients from filing medical malpractice claims, or c) preempt any future legal action by documenting that the practitioner is practicing according to the standard of care.

  3. List of healthcare occupations - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 5 September 2024, at 14:54 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  4. Labor induction - Wikipedia

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    Labor induction is the procedure where a medical professional starts the process of labor (giving birth) instead of letting it start on its own.Labor may be induced (started) if the health of the mother or the baby is at risk.

  5. Supplier-induced demand - Wikipedia

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    Poor monitoring and control, the fee-for-service payment system, insurance companies' limited role, insufficient monitoring of insurance companies, the educational nature of our health centers, health-care providers' interests, and the information gap that exists between patients and providers were all significant factors in the induced demand ...

  6. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, it is not opposite day, but if you say it is a normal day it would be considered a normal day, which contradicts the fact that it has previously been stated that it is an opposite day. Richard's paradox : We appear to be able to use simple English to define a decimal expansion in a way that is self-contradictory.

  7. Accretive Health Reports Inducement Grant under NYSE ... - AOL

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    Accretive Health Reports Inducement Grant under NYSE Rule 303A.08 CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Accretive Health, Inc. (NYS: AH) today announced that in connection with the appointment of Joseph G ...

  8. Direct primary care - Wikipedia

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    Affordable Health Care for America (H.R. 3962) America's Affordable Health Choices (H.R. 3200) Baucus Health Bill (S. 1796) Proposed. American Health Care Act (2017) Medicare for All Act (2021, H.R. 1976) Healthy Americans Act (2007, 2009) Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) Latest enacted. Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) Health Care and Education ...

  9. Medical terminology - Wikipedia

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    Suffixes are attached to the end of a word root to add meaning such as condition, disease process, or procedure. In the process of creating medical terminology, certain rules of language apply. These rules are part of language mechanics called linguistics. The word root is developed to include a vowel sound following the term to add a smoothing ...