Risk preferences and attitudes to surgery in decision making: A survey of Swedish orthopedic surgeons
Background and purpose — There is increasing evidence that several commonly performed surgical procedures provide little advantage over nonoperative treatment, suggesting that doctors may sometimes be inappropriately optimistic about surgical benefit when suggesting treatment for individual patients...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2017-09-01
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| Series: | Acta Orthopaedica |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17453674.2017.1298353 |