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A Markov model of early diagnosis

scientific article published on 01 April 1996

A new scale for assessing perceptions of chance: a validation study

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Addressing overdiagnosis and overtreatment in cancer: a prescription for change

scientific article

Advances in diagnostic imaging and overestimations of disease prevalence and the benefits of therapy.

scientific article published in April 1993

Advertising by academic medical centers

scientific article

All-cause mortality in randomized trials of cancer screening

scientific article

Are deaths within 1 month of cancer-directed surgery attributed to cancer?

scientific article published on 01 July 2002

Are increasing 5-year survival rates evidence of success against cancer?

scientific article (publication date: 14 June 2000)

Avoiding the unintended consequences of growth in medical care: how might more be worse?

scientific article published in February 1999

Breast-Cancer Tumor Size, Overdiagnosis, and Mammography Screening Effectiveness

scientific article

Can patients interpret health information? An assessment of the medical data interpretation test

scientific article

Cancer Screening, Overdiagnosis, and Regulatory Capture.

scientific article published in July 2017

Case-mix adjustment: making bad apples look good

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

Celebrity endorsements of cancer screening

scientific article published in May 2005

Cervical cancer screening among women without a cervix

scientific article published in June 2004

Could distance be a proxy for severity-of-illness? A comparison of hospital costs in distant and local patients

scientific article

Could more health care lead to worse health?

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Current antibiotic therapy for isolated urinary tract infections in women

scientific article published in March 2006

Current thyroid cancer trends in the United States

scientific article published on April 2014

Davies and Welch draw unfounded conclusions about thyroid cancer from epidemiological data-reply

scientific article published in July 2014

Detection of prostate cancer via biopsy in the Medicare-SEER population during the PSA era.

scientific article published on 11 September 2007

Determining transition probabilities from mortality rates and autopsy findings.

scientific article published in January 1997

Diagnostic Testing Following Screening Mammography in the Elderly ⬇️

scientific article published on September 16, 1998

Direct-to-consumer advertisements for prescription drugs: what are Americans being sold?

scientific article published in The Lancet

Do increased 5-year survival rates in prostate cancer indicate better outcomes?

Enthusiasm for cancer screening in the United States

scientific article published in January 2004

Epidemiologic Signatures in Cancer

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Epidemiologic Signatures in Cancer. Reply

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Estimating the impact of adding C-reactive protein as a criterion for lipid lowering treatment in the United States

scientific article published on February 2007

Evaluating randomized trials of screening

scientific article

Fee-for-data: a strategy to open the HMO black box.

scientific article published on January 1995

Flawed inferences about screening mammography's benefit based on observational data

scientific article published on 15 December 2008

Geographic Variation in Diagnosis Frequency and Risk of Death Among Medicare Beneficiaries ⬇️

scientific article published on March 16, 2011

Geographic variation in expenditures for physicians' services in the United States

scientific article

Group writing of letters to the editor as the goal of journal club

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States.

scientific article

Implications of expanding disease definitions: the case of osteoporosis

scientific article published on November 2007

Income and Cancer Overdiagnosis - When Too Much Care Is Harmful

scientific article published on June 2017

Increasing incidence of thyroid cancer in the United States, 1973-2002

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Is language a barrier to the use of preventive services? ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 1997

Is this issue a mistake?

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics

Language barriers in medicine in the United States

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

Let's make a deal. Negotiating a settlement between physicians and society

scientific article published on 01 October 1992

Likelihood That a Woman With Screen-Detected Breast Cancer Has Had Her “Life Saved” by That Screening ⬇️

scientific article published on October 24, 2011

Machine Learning and the Cancer-Diagnosis Problem - No Gold Standard

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Misunderstandings about the effects of race and sex on physicians' referrals for cardiac catheterization.

scientific article published in July 1999

Not So Silver Lining ⬇️

scientific article published on March 28, 2011

Observational intensity bias associated with illness adjustment: cross sectional analysis of insurance claims

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

Oregon's priority list--pertinence to radiologists

scientific article published on 01 May 1992

Overdiagnosis in cancer

scientific article

Overstating the evidence for lung cancer screening: the International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) study.

scientific article published in November 2007

Patients and medical statistics. Interest, confidence, and ability

scientific article

Physician profiling. An analysis of inpatient practice patterns in Florida and Oregon

scientific article published in March 1994

Population-based risk for complications after transthoracic needle lung biopsy of a pulmonary nodule: an analysis of discharge records

scientific article

Prioritizing Oregon's hospital resources. An example based on variations in discretionary medical utilization

scientific article published on 01 April 1992

Prostate cancer diagnosis and treatment after the introduction of prostate-specific antigen screening: 1986-2005

scientific article

Prostate-specific antigen levels in the United States: implications of various definitions for abnormal

scientific article

Racial disparities in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair among male Medicare beneficiaries

scientific article published in May 2008

Ramifications of screening for breast cancer: 1 in 4 cancers detected by mammography are pseudocancers

scientific article published in March 2006

Ratio measures in leading medical journals: structured review of accessibility of underlying absolute risks

scientific article

Reconsidering Prostate Cancer Mortality - The Future of PSA Screening

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Regional Variation of Computed Tomographic Imaging in the United States and the Risk of Nephrectomy

scientific article

Regional variations in health care intensity and physician perceptions of quality of care

scientific article published in May 2006

Risk charts: putting cancer in context

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Risk communication in clinical practice: putting cancer in context.

scientific article

Risk for Complications After Transthoracic Needle Lung Biopsy

Risk for increased utilization and adverse health outcomes among men served by the Veterans Health Administration

scientific article published in July 2007

Screening for disease

scientific article

Setting the revisit interval in primary care

scientific article

Skin biopsy rates and incidence of melanoma: population based ecological study

scientific article

Surgical mortality as an indicator of hospital quality: the problem with small sample size

scientific article published in August 2004

The Rapid Rise in Cutaneous Melanoma Diagnoses

scientific article published on 01 January 2021

The Role of Numeracy in Understanding the Benefit of Screening Mammography

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

The drug facts box: providing consumers with simple tabular data on drug benefit and harm

scientific article

The effectiveness of a primer to help people understand risk: two randomized trials in distinct populations

scientific article published in February 2007

The exaggerated relations between diet, body weight and mortality: the case for a categorical data approach

scientific article published in March 2005

The frequency of Pap smear screening in the United States

scientific article

The future of the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system

scientific article published on February 1995

The heterogeneity of cancer

scientific article

The impact of practicing in multiple hospitals on physician profiles

scientific article

The natural history of invasive breast cancers detected by screening mammography

scientific article

The risk of death by age, sex, and smoking status in the United States: putting health risks in context

scientific article published on 10 June 2008

The role of patients and providers in the timing of follow-up visits. Telephone Care Study Group

scientific article

The sea of uncertainty surrounding ductal carcinoma in situ--the price of screening mammography

scientific article

The use of Medicare home health care services

scientific article published in August 1996

The value of benefit data in direct-to-consumer drug ads.

scientific article

Thyroid cancer survival in the United States: observational data from 1973 to 2005.

scientific article

Tobacco money: up in smoke?

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Trends in Metastatic Breast and Prostate Cancer

scientific article published on 01 February 2016

Trends in Metastatic Breast and Prostate Cancer--Lessons in Cancer Dynamics

scientific article

Trends in diagnostic testing following a national guideline for evaluation of dyspepsia

scientific article published on April 1996

Trends in the use of the pulmonary artery catheter in the United States, 1993-2004.

scientific article published in July 2007

U.S. trends in CABG hospital volume: the effect of adding cardiac surgery programs

scientific article published on January 2007

US women's attitudes to false positive mammography results and detection of ductal carcinoma in situ: cross sectional survey

scientific article published on June 2000

US women's attitudes to false-positive mammography results and detection of ductal carcinoma in situ: cross-sectional survey

scientific article

Uncoupling Diagnosis and Treatment of Incidentally Imaged Renal Masses-Reply

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

Using Autopsy Series To Estimate the Disease “Reservoir” for Ductal Carcinoma in Situ of the Breast: How Much More Breast Cancer Can We Find?

scientific article published on 01 December 1997

Using a drug facts box to communicate drug benefits and harms: two randomized trials

scientific article published on 16 February 2009

Variation in the tendency of primary care physicians to intervene

scientific article published in October 2005

When should this patient be seen again?

scientific article published on 01 January 1999

Why estimates of physician supply and requirements disagree

scientific article published on May 1993

Women's perceptions of breast cancer risk: how you ask matters

scientific article published on July 1999

Women's understanding of the mammography screening debate

scientific article published in May 2000

Women's views on breast cancer risk and screening mammography: a qualitative interview study.

scientific article published in May 2001

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