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ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2017

Better decision making in preventive health screening: Balancing benefits and harms.

Neil R Bell, Roland Grad, James A Dickinson, Harminder Singh, Ainsley Elizabeth Moore, Danielle Kasperavicius, Kaylyn L Kretschmer

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Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  20. Measuring what really matters: Screening in primary care.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Neil R BellProfessor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Roland GradAssociate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Que.
James A DickinsonProfessor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
Harminder SinghAssociate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and in the Department of Hematology and Oncology for CancerCare Manitoba.
Ainsley Elizabeth MooreAssociate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.
Danielle KasperaviciusResearch coordinator for the Knowledge Translation program at St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ont. kasperavicid@smh.ca.
Kaylyn L KretschmerBusiness Partner, Stakeholder Engagement at the BC Safety Authority in New Westminster, BC.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Decision MakingHumansMass ScreeningMedical OverusePreventive Health Services

Identifiers

PMID28701439
PMCPMC5507224

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