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General Health Checks in Adult Primary Care: A Review

2021-02-13

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> <h4>Importance</h4> General health checks—also known as general medical exams, periodic health evaluations, checkups, or wellness visits—to identify and prevent disease are extremely common in adult primary care. Although general health checks are often expected and advocated by patients, clinicians, payers, and health systems, others question their value. The current evidence was updated and rec...

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Literature Corpus work: 8136664b-d153-5d2b-8b2b-921b3e6c4975
DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.12.21251649

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