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The earlier the better

Landewé writes
, "We may have to acknowledge in rheumatology that 'earlier' (diagnosis) is not always necessarily 'better', that 'more' (treatment) is not automatically 'more effective', and that 'increased sensitivity' (of diagnostic tests) is not synonymous to 'better yield'. We need to better distinguish 'disease' from the 'risk of disease'. We need trials investigating how to best manage all those milder cases that come to us as a result of our early diagnosis initiatives. We need to learn what does and does not really matter to patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases. We need to pay more attention to possible overdiagnosis and overtreatment in our clinical research."

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