Preventing overdiagnosis: how to stop harming the healthy.

Ray Moynihan; Jenny Doust; David Henry

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Preventing overdiagnosis: how to stop harming the healthy.

June 27, 2012

Moynihan R, Doust J, Henry D. BMJ. 2012;344:e3502.

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This commentary discusses risks associated with overdiagnosis, including unnecessary testing and potential to harm patients.

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