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Failure of cost-benefit analysis in gastrointestinal endoscopy

Background and study aims  We discuss the occurrence of two cases, where the endoscopic pursuit of diagnostic certainty resulted in adverse events that exceeded the clinical relevance of the endoscopic diagnosis itself. In both instances, physicians were hesitant to subject their patients to a neces...

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Autores principales: Sonnenberg, Amnon, Bakis, Gennadiy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: © Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2019
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6847691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31723576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-0990-9583