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Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of disease that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's ordinarily expected lifetime [1] and thus presents no practical threat regardless of being pathologic. Overdiagnosis is a side effect of screening for early forms of disease.
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. [9] It is a problem because it turns people into patients unnecessarily and because it can lead to economic waste [10] (overutilization) and treatments that may cause harm. Overdiagnosis occurs when a disease is diagnosed correctly ...
The overdiagnosis industry. An analysis published last year in the Annals of Internal Medicine estimated that among women aged 50 to 74 years, ...
Overdiagnosis occurs when all of these people with harmless abnormalities are counted as "lives saved" by the screening, rather than as "healthy people needlessly harmed by overdiagnosis". So it might lead to an endless cycle: the greater the overdiagnosis, the more people will think screening is more effective than it is, which can reinforce ...
People are being “overdiagnosed” with obesity, leading medics have warned as they called for a “reframing” of the way the condition is diagnosed. Academics have suggested that a body mass ...
The independent crossbencher told peers: “There’s no doubt that there is massive overdiagnosis of things that are called mental disorder but are distress and need a different sort of approach.
[80] Estimates of overdiagnosis associated with mammography have ranged from 1% to 54%. [85] In 2009, Peter C. Gotzsche and Karsten Juhl Jørgensen reviewed the literature and found that 1 in 3 cases of breast cancer detected in a population offered mammographic screening is over-diagnosed. [86]
But limiting the overdiagnosis of obesity could remedy that, he says. Steering clinicians away from depending just on BMI doesn’t mean doing away with BMI entirely. Rubino acknowledges it can be ...