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Screening and overdiagnosis: public health implications

Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of an abnormality that bears no substantial health hazard and no benefit for patients to be aware of. Resulting mainly from the use of increasingly sensitive screening and diagnostic tests, as well as broadened definitions of conditions requiring an intervention, overd...

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Autores principales: Bulliard, Jean-Luc, Chiolero, Arnaud
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5804493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450036
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40985-015-0012-1