Too much technology

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hofmann, Bjørn Morten ^a,b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; SCINTIGRAPHY; STETHOSCOPE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; TRENDS;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS;

EID: 84923171548     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h705     Document Type: Article

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