The harms of screening: New attention to an old concern

JAMA

Volumn 307, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 565-566

  Woolf, Steven H ^a   Harris, Russell ^b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ANXIETY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; OVERDIAGNOSIS; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT SURVEY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 84856778917     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2012.100     Document Type: Short Survey

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