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

doi:10.4414/smw.2010.12992

Review article: Biomedical intelligence

Vol. 140 No. 1516 (2010)

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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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2010.12992
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2010;140:1-11
Published: 24.04.2010

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Zwahlen M, Low N, Borisch B, Egger M, Künzli N, Obrist R, Paccaud F, Zybach U, M. Probst-Hensch N. Population-based screening – the difficulty of how to do more good than harm and how to achieve it. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2010 Apr. 24 [cited 2024 Nov. 21];140(1516):1-11. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/1107

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