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Will Insistence on Practicing Medicine According to Expected Utility Theory Lead to an Increase in Diagnostic Testing? Reply to DeKay's Commentary: Physicians' Anticipated Regret and Diagnostic Testing

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  • Iztok Hozo

    (Department of Mathematics, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, Indiana)

  • Benjamin Djulbegovic

    (University of South Florida, Clinical Translational Science Institute, Center for Evidence-Based Medicine and Health Outcomes, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, bdjulbeg@health.usf.edu)

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  • Iztok Hozo & Benjamin Djulbegovic, 2009. "Will Insistence on Practicing Medicine According to Expected Utility Theory Lead to an Increase in Diagnostic Testing? Reply to DeKay's Commentary: Physicians' Anticipated Regret and Diagnostic Testin," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 29(3), pages 320-324, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:medema:v:29:y:2009:i:3:p:320-324
    DOI: 10.1177/0272989X09334370
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    1. Michael L. DeKay & David A. Asch, 1998. "Is the Defensive Use of Diagnostic Tests Good for Patients, or Bad?," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 18(1), pages 19-28, January.
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