Beware of overdiagnosis harms from screening, lower diagnostic thresholds, and incidentalomas

G Thériault, R Grad, JA Dickinson, H Singh… - Canadian Family …, 2023 - cfp.ca
Clinical practice guidelines should support clinicians in delivering preventive health
services. Unfortunately, they often do not provide the information we need to have …

Overdiagnosis: causes and consequences in primary health care

H Singh, JA Dickinson, G Thériault, R Grad… - Canadian Family …, 2018 - cfp.ca
Overdiagnosis was well recognized in the second half of the 20th century from the advent of
widespread screening for cancers. 1, 2 However, overdiagnosis has received much more …

How to prevent overdiagnosis

A Chiolero, F Paccaud, D Aujesky, V Santschi… - Swiss medical …, 2015 - smw.ch
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of an abnormality that is not associated with a substantial
health hazard and that patients have no benefit to be aware of. It is neither a misdiagnosis …

[HTML][HTML] Screening and overdiagnosis: public health implications

JL Bulliard, A Chiolero - Public health reviews, 2015 - Springer
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of an abnormality that bears no substantial health hazard
and no benefit for patients to be aware of. Resulting mainly from the use of increasingly …

Getting medicine right: overcoming the problem of overscreening, overdiagnosis, and overtreatment

J Siwek - American Family Physician, 2015 - aafp.org
Getting Medicine Right: Overcoming the Page 1 18 American Family Physician www.aafp.org/afp
Volume 91, Number 1 ◆ January 1, 2015 Getting Medicine Right: Overcoming the Problem of …

Screening: when things go wrong

JA Dickinson, N Pimlott, R Grad, H Singh… - Canadian Family …, 2018 - cfp.ca
Preventive screening has the potential to make otherwise healthy people sick. 1 Every day
in practice, family physicians perform interventions intended to beneft patients, but which …

[PDF][PDF] Debunking myths about screening: How to screen more judiciously

G Thériault, DL Reynolds, R Grad, JA Dickinson… - Canadian Family …, 2023 - cfp.ca
Screening is mostly considered a noble and worthwhile effort. Most patients believe
screening has no drawbacks and can bring only positive health outcomes. 1 As physicians …

Expanding the measurement of overdiagnosis in the context of disease precursors and risk factors

G Theriault, D Reynolds, JJ Pillay, H Limburg… - BMJ Evidence-Based …, 2023 - ebm.bmj.com
Because individual patients weigh benefits and harms differently, it is important to provide
quantitative information about the benefits and harms of screening interventions, particularly …

Defining, estimating, and communicating overdiagnosis in cancer screening

L Davies, DB Petitti, L Martin, M Woo… - Annals of internal …, 2018 - acpjournals.org
The toll of inadequate health care is well-substantiated, but recognition is mounting that “too
much” is also possible. Overdiagnosis represents one harm of too much medicine, but the …

[HTML][HTML] Improving quality by doing less: overscreening

M Ebell, J Herzstein - American Family Physician, 2015 - aafp.org
Improving Quality by Doing Less: Overscreening | AAFP Advertisement search close brand
logo MARK EBELL, MD, MS, University of Georgia College of Public Health, Athens, Georgia …