ArticlePLoS medicine2014
Using evidence to combat overdiagnosis and overtreatment: evaluating treatments, tests, and disease definitions in the time of too much.
Article in PLoS medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Understanding healthcare efficiency-an AI-supported narrative review of diverse terminologies used.BMC medical education · 2025Review
- What is the role of selection bias in quality comparisons between the Veterans Health Administration and community care? Example of elective hernia surgery.Health services research · 2023Article
- No Recommendation Is (at Least Presently) the Best Recommendation: An Updating Quality Appraisal of Recommendations on Screening for Scoliosis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Broadening risk factor or disease definition as a driver for overdiagnosis: A narrative review.Journal of internal medicine · 2022Review
- Physician Perspectives of Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment of Low-Risk Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the US.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Use of Routine Health Datasets to Assess the Appropriateness of Diagnostic Tests in the Follow-Up of Breast Cancer Patients: A Population-Based Study on 3930 Patients.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2022Article
- Computed Tomography Colonography (CTC): Is It Really the Non-Invasive Option We Think It Is? A Patient Experience Study.Journal of patient experience · 2022Article
- Neo-Hippocratic healthcare policies: professional or industrial healthcare delivery? A choice for doctors, patients, and their organisations.BMC health services research · 2020Article
- The Pitfalls of Overtreatment: Why More Care is not Necessarily Beneficial.Asian bioethics review · 2020Article
- Screening for scoliosis - New recommendations, old dilemmas, no straight solutions.World journal of orthopedics · 2020Review
- Towards Guideline-Based Management of Tethered Cord Syndrome in Spina Bifida: A Global Health Paradigm Shift in the Era of Prenatal Surgery.Neurospine · 2019Article
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- "Violence" in medicine: necessary and unnecessary, intentional and unintentional.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2018Article
- Systems Medicine Disease: Disease Classification and Scalability Beyond Networks and Boundary Conditions.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2018Article
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