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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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Published in:Public Health Rev
Main Authors: Bulliard, Jean-Luc, Chiolero, Arnaud
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5804493/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450036
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40985-015-0012-1
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