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Preventing overdiagnosis - the problems with screening
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15 minutes
Released:
Sep 17, 2014
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Podcast episode
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Screening tests were central to many of the discussions taking place at the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference (preventingoverdiagnosis.net)
To sum up some of the problems with screening we’re joined by Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, and John Broderson, associate professor in the Research Unit and Section of General Practice at the University of Copenhagen.
For more on over diagnosis, visit
www.bmj.com/too-much-medicine
To sum up some of the problems with screening we’re joined by Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at the University of Oxford, and John Broderson, associate professor in the Research Unit and Section of General Practice at the University of Copenhagen.
For more on over diagnosis, visit
www.bmj.com/too-much-medicine
Released:
Sep 17, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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