New diagnostic tests: more harm than good
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2495421Utgivelsesdato
2017Metadata
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10.1136/bmj.j3314Sammendrag
Although new diagnostics may advance the time of diagnoses in selected patients, they will increase the frequency of false alarms, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment in others. Bjorn Hofmann and H. Gilbert Welch explain how to minimise harm.