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Too Much Medicine
Mapping the drivers of overdiagnosis to potential solutions
BMJ 2017; 358 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j3879 (Published 16 August 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;358:j3879
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