Quaternary prevention and gestational diabetes mellitus
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Quaternary prevention and gestational diabetes mellitus
While this attention is both justified and welcome, it may lead to over enthusiastic screening, unnecessary diagnosis, and unwarranted treatment. Such diagnostic and therapeutic “errors of commission,” or misadventures, are especially of risk in an antenatal setting, where both mother and fetus are exposed to any intervention. These risks can be biomedical or psychosocial in nature. Unwanted hy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2230-8210
DOI: 10.4103/2230-8210.196021