Journalists’ views on media coverage of medical tests and overdiagnosis: a qualitative study

Objective Promotional media coverage of early detection tests is an important driver of overdiagnosis. Following research evidence that global media coverage presents the benefits of testing healthy people far more frequently than harms, and gives little coverage to overdiagnosis, we sought to exami...

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Main Authors: Chris G Maher, Brooke Nickel, Ray Moynihan, Alexandra Barratt, Kirsten McCaffery, Mary O'Keeffe, Loai Albarqouni, Thomas Dakin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:BMJ Open
Online Access:https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/6/e043991.full
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