diagnostic overkill
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diagnostic overkill
Clinical decision-making The use of excess or overlapping tests that provide virtually no additional diagnostic information–eg, an MRI of the brain when a prior CT identified an intracranial mass. Cf Defensive medicine.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
di·ag·nos·tic o·ver·kill
(dī'ăg-nos'tik ō'vĕr-kil)The excessive use of tests for either medical or legal reasons in the determination of the nature of a disease, injury, or congenital defect.
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