Australia is responding to the complex challenge of overdiagnosis

• 1 Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD
• 2 University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
• 3 Centre for Research in Evidence‐Based Practice, Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD

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