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- Title
Guarding Against Overtesting, Overdiagnosis, and Overtreatment of Older Adults: Thinking Beyond Imaging and Injuries to Weigh Harms and Benefits.
- Authors
Hoffman, Jerome R.; Carpenter, Christopher R.
- Abstract
An introduction is presented in which the authors discuss an article in the issue dealing with hospitalizations of older adults following ground-level falls, and it mentions spinal injuries and an effort to guard against overtesting, overdiagnosis, and the overtreatment of older patients.
- Subjects
ACCIDENTAL falls in old age; HOSPITAL care of older people; OVERDIAGNOSIS; OVERTREATMENT; DIAGNOSTIC errors; GERIATRICS; ROUTINE diagnostic tests
- Publication
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2017, Vol 65, Issue 5, p903
- ISSN
0002-8614
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jgs.14737