overimaging.
Excessive imaging: that which is beyond what is properly indicated in the situation.
Meaning & usage
Excessive imaging: that which is beyond what is properly indicated in the situation.
Any efforts to reduce overimaging must find ways of addressing the underlying incentives behind defensive medicine.
It is not always easy to say objectively whether CT or MRI constitutes overimaging in any specific case; sometimes the decision on whether to obtain such imaging is a matter of managing risk levels, as the risk of missing something diagnostically is not worth taking in a certain situation.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English imaging English overimaging From over- + imaging.
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