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Overdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn’t
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  • John Brodersen Centre of Research & Education in General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark Region Zealand, Primary Health Care Research Unit PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lisa M Schwartz Center for Medicine and the Media, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Carl Heneghan Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jack William O’Sullivan Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jeffrey K Aronson Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Steven Woloshin Center for Medicine and the Media, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor John Brodersen, Centre of Research & Education in General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Copenhagen 1014, Denmark; jobr{at}sund.ku.dk
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Brodersen J, Schwartz LM, Heneghan C, et al
Overdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn’t
BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2018;23:1-3.

Publication history

  • Accepted December 7, 2017
  • First published January 24, 2018.
Online issue publication 
January 26, 2018

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