Download Educated Guesses: Making Policy about Medical Screening Tests Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: First Edition
Release: 1994-02-11
Publisher: University of California Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0520083660
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Educated Guesses pdf
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A copublication with the Milbank Memorial Fund
Prevention is the best cure--or is it? As medical experts hammer home the importance of annual medical checkups and routine screening for everything from high blood pressure to cancer, Americans have come to believe that frequent screening tests are essential for saving lives. But just how effective are the tests that we have come to take for granted? In this provocative book, medical economist Louise Russell challenges the standard wisdom that more is necessarily better by examining three routinely administered tests--those designed to detect cervical cancer, prostate cancer, and high levels of cholesterol.
Standard recommendations such as annual Pap smears for women and prostate tests for men over forty are in fact simply rules of thumb that ignore the complexities of individual cases and the tradeoffs between escalating costs and early detection, Russell argues. By looking beyond these recommendations to examine conflicting eviden Download Educated Guesses for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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