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Doctors Feel Overtreatment a Problem

Saturday, Sep 09 2017
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Doctors feel that overtratment is prevalent in healthcare, according to a survey of more than 2,000 physicians from PLOS One. So reports Becker's Hospital Review.

Doctors feel that 20% of all healthcare is unnecessary, but prescriptions and tests are the areas where doctors feel there is the most overtreatment, according to the survey. The findings show that physicians feel that 22% of prescriptions and 24% of the tests are unnecessary.

Read the full article from Becker's Hospital Review.

 

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