ArticleBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2002
Too much medicine?
Article in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- The need for "gentle medicine" in a post Covid-19 world.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2021Review
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- How to Draw the Line Between Health and Disease? Start with Suffering.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2021Article
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- Why do niches develop in Caesarean uterine scars? Hypotheses on the aetiology of niche development.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2015Article
- Consequences of defensive medicine, second victims, and clinical-judicial syndrome on surgeons' medical practice and on health service.Updates in surgery · 2015Review
- Comparative effectiveness of exercise and drug interventions on mortality outcomes: metaepidemiological study.British journal of sports medicine · 2015Review
- Choosing wisely: avoiding too much medicine.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2014Article
- The evolution of Reference Drug Lists and Clinical Practice Guidelines in the public health system of a middle-income country.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2014Article
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