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Primary care prevention updates on the internet.

Prevention and screening should be part of office visits. It should be efficiently done and relevant to the patient. We should know the big picture of mortality causes, life spans, and how much bang for the buck you will get from various screenings. The Internet can help us to keep up with the moving target of guidelines. While not discussed here, important other issues in screening are the science behind screening test evaluations, sensitivity and specificity, and cost effectiveness measured in dollars per healthy year equivalent or quality adjusted life year. All of these can be searched for on the Internet. 
 
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