To the editor

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 365, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 2036-

  Heleno, Bruno ^a   Rasmussen, Jakob F ^a   Brodersen, John ^b  

^a Research Unit for General Practice   (Denmark)

^b Section of General Practice   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SCREENING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SMOKING HABIT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84856392742     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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