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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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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