TY - JOUR
T1 - Global Media Coverage of the Benefits and Harms of Early Detection Tests
AU - O'Keeffe, Mary
AU - Barratt, Alexandra
AU - Fabbri, Alice
AU - Zadro, Joshua R
AU - Ferreira, Giovanni E
AU - Sharma, Sweekriti
AU - Moynihan, Ray N
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Innovations in technologies for early detection of diseases, such as breast cancer, dementia, and atrial fibrillation, are gaining increasing attention. The media is a key avenue through which tests are promoted to asymptomatic individuals, and it could have an important role in encouraging realistic expectations of the benefits and harms of early detection, including unnecessary diagnoses. Evidence suggests that medical media coverage tends to overplay benefits, downplay harms, and ignore conflicts of interest, but there are few data on coverage of early detection tests.
AB - Innovations in technologies for early detection of diseases, such as breast cancer, dementia, and atrial fibrillation, are gaining increasing attention. The media is a key avenue through which tests are promoted to asymptomatic individuals, and it could have an important role in encouraging realistic expectations of the benefits and harms of early detection, including unnecessary diagnoses. Evidence suggests that medical media coverage tends to overplay benefits, downplay harms, and ignore conflicts of interest, but there are few data on coverage of early detection tests.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103587752&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.0261
DO - 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.0261
M3 - Letter
C2 - 33818597
SN - 2168-6106
VL - 181
SP - 865
EP - 867
JO - JAMA Internal Medicine
JF - JAMA Internal Medicine
IS - 6
M1 - 0261
ER -
