Overuse: medical novelty or age-old phenomenon?

INTRODUCTION: Mentions of overuse tend to imply it is a recent phenomenon as if irrationality was brought about by technological advances and the development of new procedures. However, it is possible that physicians have been prone to the same cognitive biases since antiquity, also performing inap...

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Main Authors: João Ricardo Pinto Lopes, João Souza Filho, Carlos Danilo Crusoé Gomes, Luis Cláudio Lemos Correia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública 2022-01-01
Series:Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare
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Online Access:https://www5.bahiana.edu.br/index.php/evidence/article/view/3792