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Using Evidence to Combat Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment: Evaluating Treatments, Tests, and Disease Definitions in the Time of Too Much

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  • Ray Moynihan
  • David Henry
  • Karel G M Moons

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: 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.

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  • Ray Moynihan & David Henry & Karel G M Moons, 2014. "Using Evidence to Combat Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment: Evaluating Treatments, Tests, and Disease Definitions in the Time of Too Much," PLOS Medicine, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(7), pages 1-3, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pmed00:1001655
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001655
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    1. Hensher, Martin & Canny, Ben & Zimitat, Craig & Campbell, Julie & Palmer, Andrew, 2020. "Health care, overconsumption and uneconomic growth: A conceptual framework," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 266(C).
    2. Manu N Capoor & Jerry L Stonemetz & John C Baird & Fahad S Ahmed & Ahsan Awan & Christof Birkenmaier & Mario A Inchiosa Jr. & Steven K Magid & Kathryn McGoldrick & Ernesto Molmenti & Sajjad Naqvi & St, 2015. "Prothrombin Time and Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time Testing: A Comparative Effectiveness Study in a Million-Patient Sample," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(8), pages 1-13, August.

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