ArticleJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine2020
Why 'case finding' is bad science.
Article in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Community views on active case finding for tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Blood-Based Biomarkers for Alzheimer Disease in Primary Care: The Gap Between Biology and Clinical Utility.Neurology · 2026Review
- Why do people choose not to take part in screening? Qualitative interview study of atrial fibrillation screening nonparticipation.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2023Article
- Why do people take part in atrial fibrillation screening? Qualitative interview study in English primary care.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Repairing boundaries along pathways to tuberculosis case detection: a qualitative synthesis of intervention designs.Health research policy and systems · 2022Review
- Burden and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among people using illicit opioids: matched cohort study in England.BMJ medicine · 2022Article
- What is the balance of benefits and harms for lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography?Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2021Article
- Response to 'Why case finding is bad science'.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2020Article
- Bad science in a plastic world.Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine · 2020Article
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