Screening and overdiagnosis: public health implications
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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, overdiagnosis is a growing but still largely misunderstood public health issue. Fear of missing a diag...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reviews
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2107-6952
DOI: 10.1186/s40985-015-0012-1