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Abstract
Excessive or unnecessary utilization of health services by patients or physicians.
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20 entry terms
- Health Services Overuse
- Health Services Overutilization
- Overuse, Health Services
- Overutilization of Health Services
- Unnecessary Health Care
- Health Care, Unnecessary
- Health Services Overuses
- Medical Overuses
- Overuse, Medical
- Overuses, Health Services
- Overuses, Medical
- Overutilization, Health Services
- Medical Preference Misdiagnosis
- Preference Misdiagnosis
- Unwanted Medical Care
- Medical Care, Unwanted
- Medical Preference Misdiagnoses
- Misdiagnosis, Medical Preference
- Misdiagnosis, Preference
- Preference Misdiagnoses
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5 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings economics, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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History Note
2016; for HEALTH SERVICES OVERUTILIZATION use HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE 1978-2015
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Previous Indexing
- Unnecessary Procedures (2014-2015)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Medical Overuse. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000069342. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000069342
- Medical Overuse. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70372705