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Overdiagnosis: An Important Issue That Demands Rigour and Precision: Comment on "Medicalisation and Overdiagnosis: What Society Does to Medicine"

Van Dijk and colleagues present three cases to illustrate and discuss the relationship between medicalisation and overdiagnosis. In this commentary, I consider each of the case studies in turn, and in doing so emphasise two main points. The first is that it is not possible to assess whether overdiag...

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Autor principal: Carter, Stacy M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Kerman University of Medical Sciences 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5627790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28949478
http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2017.24