Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Preventing Overdiagnosis...

A jaundiced view of technologic advances...I believe that discrepancies such as this will occur until the technology is improved based on experience. Increase in New Diagnosis has no effect on Mortality rate!Very interesting observation.
(Data below is for United States)
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Graph taken from BMJ article BMJ 2012;344:e3502.