ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2018
Overdiagnosis: causes and consequences in primary health care.
Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Active surveillance for low-risk papillary thyroid microcarcinoma: a web-survey on clinician readiness for change.European thyroid journal · 2025Article
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- Medical students' awareness of overdiagnosis and implications for preventing overdiagnosis.BMC medical education · 2024Article
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- Skin Cancer Pathobiology at a Glance: A Focus on Imaging Techniques and Their Potential for Improved Diagnosis and Surveillance in Clinical Cohorts.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Family physicians overestimate diagnosis probabilities regardless of the test results.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
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- Changes in Diagnostic Performance of Thyroid Cancer Screening before and after the Korean Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System Revision.Korean journal of family medicine · 2022Article
- Overdiagnosis in the emergency department: a sharper focus.Internal and emergency medicine · 2022Article
- GP strategies to avoid imaging overuse. A qualitative study in Norwegian general practice.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2022Article
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