Defensive medicine and overutilization of imaging-an issue of radiation protection.

What it found

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Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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7. Assessing and coping with the financial burden of computed tomography utilization in Limbe, Cameroon: a sequential explanatory mixed-methods study.BMC health services research · 2020
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8. Overdiagnosis and overimaging: an ethical issue for radiological protection.La Radiologia medica · 2019
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Corrections and comments

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  Growing number of emergency cranial CTs in patients with head injury not justified by their clinical need.2017

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