ArticleThe British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners2016
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: generalists--it's time for a grassroots revolution.
Article in The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Is Prediabetes Overdiagnosed? Yes: A Patient-Epidemiologist's Experience.Annals of family medicine · 2024Article
- Time is money: general practitioners' reflections on the fee-for-service system.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Multimorbidity: a problem in the body, or a problem of the system?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2023Article
- Strengthening citizenship: A healthcare improvement priority.Future healthcare journal · 2021Article
- The Pitfalls of Overtreatment: Why More Care is not Necessarily Beneficial.Asian bioethics review · 2020Article
- Why clinicians overtest: development of a thematic framework.BMC health services research · 2020Review
- Dying too soon or living too long? Withdrawing treatment from patients with prolonged disorders of consciousness after Re Y.BMC medical ethics · 2019Article
- Incidentally diagnosed cancer and commonly preceding clinical scenarios: a cross-sectional descriptive analysis of English audit data.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Improving coding and primary care management for patients with chronic kidney disease: an observational controlled study in East London.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2019Observational
- The when and how of the gynaecological examination: a survey among Norwegian general practitioners.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2019Article
- Dilemmas of medical overuse in general practice - A focus group study.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2019Article
- Rethinking medicine.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2018Article
- The National CKD Audit: a primary care condition that deserves more attention.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2018Article
- Inside general practice ethics: guidelines 'and' 'of' or 'for' good clinical practice.London journal of primary care · 2018Article
- Overtreatment and undertreatment: time to challenge our thinking.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2017Article
- Incidental findings discovered during imaging: implications for general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2016Article
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