Do health professionals know about overdiagnosis in screening, and how are they dealing with it? A mixed-methods systematic scoping review

• Veerle Piessens ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Veerle.piessens@ugent.be

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Centre for Family Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2305-1762

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• Ann Van den Bruel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Academic Centre for General Practice, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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• An Piessens,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Centre Pedagogy in Practice, KdG University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8716-3950

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• Ann Van Hecke,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Centre for Nursing and Midwifery, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• John Brandt Brodersen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, The Centre of General Practice, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, The Research Unit for General Practice in Region Zealand, Zealand, Denmark, Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, General Practice Research Unit, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

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• Emelien Lauwerier,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Open University Netherlands, Heerlen, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8439-0354

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• Florian Stul,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Centre for Family Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9329-4479

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• An De Sutter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Centre for Family Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Stefan Heytens

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Centre for Family Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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