• New diagnostic tests: more harm than good 

      Hofmann, Bjørn; Welch, Gilbert (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      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 ...
    • Surge in publications on early detection 

      Hofmann, Bjørn; Skolbekken, John-Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Articles in the medical literature on early detection tend to focus on benefits rather than harms, but does evidence on outcomes warrant this difference ask Bjørn Hofmann and John-Arne Skolbekken.