Hypothyroidism in Rheumatoid Arthritis — To Screen or Not to Screen?
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To screen or not to screen.
All screenings lack efficiency because they rely too often on biaised and underpowered statistics. Healthcare business makes tremendous benefits out of well established and easy profit earning processes from screenings to treatments; therefore patients enlightened consent is under influence. In the wealthiest parts of the world, this field of public health sciences impulses studies with intense...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Rheumatology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0315-162X,1499-2752
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.120015