Tests and treatments: The first time for assessing the new and the now

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Tests and treatments: The first time for assessing the new and the now

Jo Scott-Jones

Jo Scott-Jones

brain, future, IT
How do we decide which tests are worthwhile, and which are not?

General practice has been protected from changes in testing and treatments for a very long time, but the rate of change could increase from here on. This article provides some resources to help GPs judge what has value

The core activity of general practice has been devel­oping and maintaining relationships with people, and also, for GPs, using our internal diagnostic