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Nadine Wathen and Harriet MacMillan discuss potential benefits and harms of routine screening for violence against women. Among the potential harms, they list false-negative results (failure to detect existing abuse). They fail to list the complementary type of error, false- positives: diagnosing abuse where none exists, either because of false accusations or due to errors by the clinician.
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