Population-based screening – the difficulty of how to do more good than harm and how to achieve it

Marcel Zwahlen; Nicola Low; Bettina Borisch; Matthias Egger; Nino Künzli; Reto Obrist; Fred Paccaud; Ursula Zybach; Nicole M. Probst-Hensch

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