["Routine" Laboratory Test Requests in Family Medicine: A Cross-Sectional Study Based on Clinical Practice in Portugal].

CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that there is an excessive request of laboratory tests which can lead to overdiagnosis and overtreatment that requires global Social Marketing strategies to change the prevailing culture. PMID: 32208132 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acta Medica Portuguesa - Category: General Medicine Tags: Acta Med Port Source Type: research