Table 3 Variable definitions
Variable Name | Description |
|---|---|
Outcome | |
Defensive Treatment | Dummy equal to 1 if physician chooses defensive treatment |
Variable of Interest | |
Liability Risk | Dummy equal to 1 if mean physician’s perceived medical liability risk is greater than or equal to 4 on a seven-point Likert scale.a |
Treatment Variable | |
Critical Patient | Dummy equal to 1 if physician saw videos with critical patient communication |
Physician Characteristics | |
Female | Dummy equal to 1 if physician is female |
Gynaecology | Dummy equal to 1 if physician saw gynaecological cases and 0 when exposed to orthopaedic cases |
Working Experience > 20y | Dummy equal to 1 if physician practices medicine for more than 20 years |
Accountability | Dummy equal to 1 if physician is accountable to a superior/colleagues for the actions (s)he takes |
Claim Experience | Dummy equal to 1 if physician has personal claim experience |
Defensive Person | Dummy equal to 1 if the mean of 10 defensive acts (that is, lowering patient contacts, treating less high-risk patients, performing less high-risk treatments, working less hours, retiring early, changing to a lower risk specialism, referring patients to confirm diagnosis (second opinion), prescribing more medication, suggesting more diagnostic procedures to confirm diagnosis, suggesting more invasive tests to confirm diagnosis) is greater than or equal to 3 |