Risk factor (predictive) medicine as a driver of fear and overdiagnosis
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Risk factor (predictive) medicine as a driver of fear and overdiagnosis.
Heath is right to argue that we have to face up to our fears of uncertainty if we want to limit overdiagnosis and overtreatment. I think that one major driver of these fears comes from the development of medicine that is based on the identification and treatment of risk factors and from blurring of the boundaries between risk and disease. Indeed, being at risk of disease is increasingly confoun...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g7078