Casting the net too wide on overdiagnosis: benefits, burdens and non-harmful disease

Overdiagnosis is a significant problem for healthcare, harming individuals and incurring costs. One potential barrier to addressing overdiagnosis concerns the difficulty of pinning down exactly what we mean by the term. To this end, Carter et al make a welcome contribution to the growing debate.1 In...

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Authors: Rogers, A. (Author) ; Mintzker, Yishai (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2016
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 42, Issue: 11, Pages: 717-719
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