Comment Comment by rahulnair23 Health policy is fraught with counter-intuitive phenomenon - and screening is one of them.Seems like it should help, but in practice leads to over-diagnosis.For example - Cancer rates jumped in Korea after screening with no impact on patient outcomes [1]. There are several others.[1] Lee, J. H., & Shin, S. W. (2014). Overdiagnosis and screening for thyroid cancer in Korea. The Lancet, 384(9957), 1848. parent rahulnair23 5 years ago
Seems like it should help, but in practice leads to over-diagnosis.
For example - Cancer rates jumped in Korea after screening with no impact on patient outcomes [1]. There are several others.
[1] Lee, J. H., & Shin, S. W. (2014). Overdiagnosis and screening for thyroid cancer in Korea. The Lancet, 384(9957), 1848.