Using evidence to combat overdiagnosis and overtreatment: evaluating treatments, tests, and disease definitions in the time of too much.
editorial · Level V
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 24983872.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001655 and PMC identifier 4077659.
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Abstract
Ray Moynihan and colleagues outline suggestions for improving the way that medical evidence is produced, analysed, and interpreted to avoid problems of overdiagnosis and overtreatment. <i>Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary</i>
Medical subject headings
- Diagnosis
- Evidence-Based Medicine
- Therapeutics