Overdiagnosis: An unrecognised and growing worldwide problem in healthcare

Autor:	Brodersen John
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	overdiagnosis overdetection disease mongering prediagnosticiranje pretirano odkrivanje napihovanje bolezni Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
Zdroj:	Slovenian Journal of Public Health, Vol 56, Iss 3, Pp 147-149 (2017)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1854-2476
DOI:	10.1515/sjph-2017-0019
Popis:	Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of deviations, abnormalities, risk factors, and pathologies that in themselves would never cause symptoms (this applies only to risk factors and pathology), would never lead to morbidity, and would never be the cause of death. Therefore, treating an overdiagnosed condition (deviation, abnormality, risk factor, pathology) cannot, by definition, improve the patient’s prognosis, and can therefore only be harmful.
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