When Less is More: Mitigating the Harms and Risks of Over-testing Through Shared Decision Making

Overview

Journal CJEM

Publisher Springer

Specialty Emergency Medicine

Date 2021 Nov 18

PMID 34792794

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Authors

Anthony Chauvin

Eddy Lang

Patrick Bossuyt

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