Medical Overuse as a Physician Cognitive Error: Looking Under the Hood.

What it found

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Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

1. The paradox of convenience: how information overload in mHealth apps leads to medical service overuse.Frontiers in public health · 2024
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2. Unravelling the determinants of medical practice variation in referrals among primary care physicians: insights from a retrospective cohort study in Southern Israel.BMJ open · 2023
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3. The occurrence, types, reasons, and mitigation strategies of defensive medicine among physicians: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2022
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4. [The problem of medical overuse : Finding a definition and solutions].Der Internist · 2021
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5. The impact of global budget payment reform on systemic overuse in Maryland.Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020
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6. Determinants of Medical Practice Variation Among Primary Care Physicians: Protocol for a Three Phase Study.JMIR research protocols · 2020
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7. Why Not? Persuading Clinicians to Reduce Overuse.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Innovations, quality & outcomes · 2020
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8. Understanding Geographic Variation in Systemic Overuse Among the Privately Insured.Medical care · 2020
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9. When more could be industry-driven: the case of the extracorporeal treatment of sepsis.Intensive care medicine · 2019
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Corrections and comments

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  Analysis of Physician Variation in Provision of Low-Value Services.2019

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