Chronic kidney disease controversy: how expanding definitions are unnecessarily labelling many people as diseased

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Ray Moynihan et al. BMJ. 2013.

. 2013 Jul 29:347:f4298.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4298.

¹ Centre for Research in Evidence Based Practice, Bond University, 4229 Australia.

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