Erratum: Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: Evaluation of what physicians tell their patients about screening harms (JAMA Internal Medicine (2013) DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.10363);Overdiagnosis and overtreatment: Evaluation of what physicians tell their patients about screening harms

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 2086-2087

  Wegwarth, Odette ^a   Gigerenzer, Gerd ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLONOSCOPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LETTER; MALE; MAMMOGRAPHY; ONLINE MONITORING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 84890036694     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13462     Document Type: Erratum

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