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Descriptor English:   Medical Overuse 
Descriptor Spanish:   sobreutilización de los servicios de salud 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Sobremedicalização 
Synonyms English:   Health Services Overuse
Health Services Overuses
Health Services Overutilization
Medical Care, Unwanted
Medical Cares, Unwanted
Medical Overuses
Medical Preference Misdiagnoses
Medical Preference Misdiagnosis
Misdiagnoses, Medical Preference
Misdiagnoses, Preference
Misdiagnosis, Medical Preference
Misdiagnosis, Preference
Overdiagnoses
Overdiagnosis
Overmedication
Overmedications
Overtreatment
Overtreatments
Overuse, Health Services
Overuse, Medical
Overuses, Health Services
Overuses, Medical
Overutilization of Health Services
Overutilization, Health Services
Preference Misdiagnoses
Preference Misdiagnoses, Medical
Preference Misdiagnosis
Preference Misdiagnosis, Medical
Unwanted Medical Care
Unwanted Medical Cares  
Tree Number:   N02.421.380.450
N05.300.150.395.450
Definition English:   Excessive or unnecessary utilization of health services by patients or physicians. 
See Related English:   Diagnostic Errors
Drug Overdose
Inappropriate Prescribing
Polypharmacy
 
History Note English:   2016; for HEALTH SERVICES OVERUTILIZATION use HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE 1978-2015 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
EC economics LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PC prevention & control SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends  
Record Number:   56213 
Unique Identifier:   D000069342 

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