Harms of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm: Is there more to life than a 0·46% disease-specific mortality reduction?

The Lancet

Volumn 387, Issue 10015, 2016, Pages 308-310

  Johansson, Minna ^a,b   Jørgensen, Karsten Juhl ^c   Brodersen, John ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b FoUU centrum Fyrbodal   (Sweden)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SCREENING; SHORT SURVEY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); ADVERSE EFFECTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ETHICS; HEALTH SERVICE; MASS SCREENING; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL OVERUSE;

EID: 84954390468     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00472-9     Document Type: Note

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