RT Journal
A1 Mitka M
T1 STudies continue to show no benefit from annual physicals in healthy adults
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD December 12
VO 308
IS 22
SP 2321
OP 2322
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.36756
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.36756
AB 
The review, by the Cochrane Collaboration, looked at outcome data from 14 randomized trials involving 182 880 participants that compared general health checks with no health checks. The review concluded that general health checks, while increasing the number of new diagnoses for various diseases, did not reduce morbidity or mortality either overall or for cardiovascular or cancer causes and that such examinations were unlikely to be beneficial. The reviewers also did not find an effect of general health checks on hospitalization, disability, worry, additional visits to physicians, or absence from work (Krogsbøll LT et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009009.pub2 [published online October 17, 2012]).