This impacts on social workers, as they have to carry out assessments on a large amount of potentially unnecessary referrals.
Breast cancer screening saves the lives of two women for every one who receives potentially unnecessary treatment, research out today suggests.
Patients should get more involved in deciding their medical treatment and challenge the pervading "doctor knows best" culture which results in the over-prescription of potentially unnecessary drugs, Scotland's Chief Medical Officer has suggested.
These negative series can be qualified as potentially unnecessary.
The rising use of imaging cardiac stress tests has led to potentially unnecessary testing.
Because of the low specificity of the ICG, many patients will undergo potentially unnecessary surgery for nonmalignant IPMNs.
Breast cancer patients could avoid potentially unnecessary surgery and radiotherapy as a result of new research in London.
Beyond the potentially unnecessary burden in terms of paramedical workload, fasting may have some side effects such as caloric deficit, hypoglycemia, or delayed extubation.
We hypothesized that readmission rates, readmissions related to index admission, and potentially unnecessary readmissions vary by data collection method for surgical patients.
The purpose of this study was to explore the temporal trends and factors that are associated with cesarean deliveries and potentially unnecessary cesarean deliveries.
However, serial processes can lead to efficient processing if information from only one image is sufficient for adequate judgments and the additional image is redundant and potentially unnecessary (Neriani et al., 2008).
