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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...
Autores principales: | Bulliard, Jean-Luc, Chiolero, Arnaud |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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