Conceptual overdiagnosis. A comment on Wendy Rogers and Yishai Mintzker's article “Getting clearer on overdiagnosis”

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1118-1119

  Hofmann, Bjørn M ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONOSCOPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COLORECTAL POLYP; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LETTER; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALDETECTION OVERDIAGNOSIS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MISCLASSIFICATION OVERDIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; HEALTH SERVICE;

HUMANS; MEDICAL OVERUSE;

EID: 84992529994     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12652     Document Type: Letter

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