Universal health checks should be abandoned

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 347, Issue 7923, 2013, Pages

  Krogsbøll, Lasse T ^a   Jørgensen, Karsten Juhl ^a   Gøtzsche, Peter C ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENMARK; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; LETTER; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUBLICATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCREENING; UNITED KINGDOM;

FEMALE; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84883755602     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f5227     Document Type: Letter

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