Clinical and ethical differences between diagnosing and screening

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Clinical and ethical differences between diagnosing and screening. / Lynge, Elsebeth; Kragstrup, Jakob.

In: Ugeskrift for Laeger, Vol. 176, No. 12, 2014.

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Lynge, E & Kragstrup, J 2014, 'Clinical and ethical differences between diagnosing and screening', Ugeskrift for Laeger, vol. 176, no. 12.

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Lynge, E., & Kragstrup, J. (2014). Clinical and ethical differences between diagnosing and screening. Ugeskrift for Laeger, 176(12).

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Lynge E, Kragstrup J. Clinical and ethical differences between diagnosing and screening. Ugeskrift for Laeger. 2014;176(12).

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Lynge, Elsebeth ; Kragstrup, Jakob. / Clinical and ethical differences between diagnosing and screening. In: Ugeskrift for Laeger. 2014 ; Vol. 176, No. 12.

Bibtex

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