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Editorial
. 2018 Aug 17:362:k3494.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3494.

Focusing on overdiagnosis as a driver of too much medicine

John Brodersen  1 , Barnett S Kramer  2 , Helen Macdonald  3 , Lisa M Schwartz  4 , Steven Woloshin  4
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Focusing on overdiagnosis as a driver of too much medicine

John Brodersen et al. BMJ. .
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Competing interests: The authors are on the scientific steering committee of the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference, of which The BMJ is a media partner. The conference has refocused its programme on overdiagnosis, rather than other aspects of too much medicine, for the reasons discussed in this article.

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