Overdiagnosis and Undertesting for Infectious Diseases
Tinglong Dai,
Shubhranshu Singh
Abstract:Motivated by the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, this paper models how laboratories’ diagnostic-testing practice interacts with health policy, which can lead to both overdiagnosis and undertesting.
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