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

Ray Moynihan, David Henry and Karel G M Moons

PLOS Medicine, 2014, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-3

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.

Date: 2014
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