Is there an overdiagnosis of ADHD

And too much healthcare implies too little effective healthcare. An older term, ‘overdiagnosis’ has been used to refer to a more restricted set of items. And although the term can be traced back as ...

Objectives The term ‘overdiagnosis’ was first used as early as 1924, when J. D. Adamson used it to describe negative implications of attempts to achieve early diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (CMAJ ...

Peter and Alfred have wildly different health problems, but they share one thing in common. They may have been victims of overdiagnosis. The term is now official: “overdiagnosis – the labeling of a ...

Although high-quality screening programmes may provide substantial benefits, one of the major harms associated with screening is overdiagnosis. Overdiagnosis refers to the event that a disease is ...

[13,14] Thus, we calculated the expected effects on incidence from lead time alone, with no influence of overdiagnosis or changes in underlying risk. The most important finding was that lead time ...

Exclusive: Patients tell of screening and surgery they believe they didn’t need, and the effect this has had on their lives Cancer organisations acknowledge the risks of overdiagnosis and say ...

Background: Overdiagnosis in breast cancer screening is a controversial topic. One difficulty in estimation of overdiagnosis is the separation of overdiagnosis from lead time that is the advance ...

These four questions, promoted by Choosing Wisely Canada, featured prominently at the two 2018 conferences, Too Much Medicine in Helsinki, Finland (figure 1), and the sixth annual Preventing ...

A new research result questions whether the benefits of breast cancer screenings has gradually declined to a degree that it is too small in relation to the costs in the form of overdiagnosis and ...

Objective Promotional media coverage of early detection tests is an important driver of overdiagnosis. Following research evidence that global media coverage presents the benefits of testing healthy ...