New diagnostic tests: more harm than good
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DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j3314
Abstract: 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… read more here.
Keywords: tests harm; new diagnostic; diagnostic tests; harm good ... See more keywords