Dilemmas of medical overuse in general practice - A focus group study.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study indicates that GPs in Norway experience a strong pressure to discover any instance of disease and to meet patients' demands for investigations. One way of preventing the harm that accrues from overtesting is openly sharing uncertainty and fallibility with patients and colleagues. PMID: 30700201 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30700201?dopt=Abstract

Source: Primary Care - January 31, 2019 Category: Primary Care Authors: Opdal PØ, Meland E, Hjörleifsson S Tags: Scand J Prim Health Care Source Type: research