Using Evidence to Combat Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment: Evaluating Treatments, Tests, and Disease Definitions in the Time of Too Much

Ray Moynihan and colleagues outline suggestions for improving the way that medical evidence is produced, analysed, and interpreted to avoid problems of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

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Autores principales: Moynihan, Ray, Henry, David, Moons, Karel G. M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4077659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24983872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001655
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spelling pubmed-40776592014-07-03 Using Evidence to Combat Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment: Evaluating Treatments, Tests, and Disease Definitions in the Time of Too Much Moynihan, Ray Henry, David Moons, Karel G. M. PLoS Med Essay Ray Moynihan and colleagues outline suggestions for improving the way that medical evidence is produced, analysed, and interpreted to avoid problems of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary Public Library of Science 2014-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4077659/ /pubmed/24983872 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001655 Text en © 2014 Moynihan et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_short Using Evidence to Combat Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment: Evaluating Treatments, Tests, and Disease Definitions in the Time of Too Much
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24983872
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001655
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