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Understanding medical overuse: the case of problematic polypharmacy and the potential of ethnography
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posted on 2018-04-05, 08:36 authored by Natalie Armstrong, Deborah Swinglehurst(Opening paragraph) Medical overuse is increasingly highlighted as a significant problem in contemporary healthcare. Attention globally is focusing on the possible harms and avoidable waste of ‘too much medicine’, such as the OECD’s recent report on the need to tackle wasteful healthcare spending such as diagnostic tests and interventions which offer patients little or no benefit.
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Family Practice, 2018, cmy022Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES/School of Medicine/Department of Health SciencesVersion
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Family PracticePublisher
Oxford University Pressissn
0263-2136eissn
1460-2229Copyright date
2018Available date
2019-04-06Publisher DOI
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https://academic.oup.com/fampra/advance-article/doi/10.1093/fampra/cmy022/4963873Notes
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