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Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Overdiagnosis
Diagnosis > Overdiagnosis
Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Patient Care Management > Delivery of Health Care > Overdiagnosis
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Delivery of Health Care > Overdiagnosis

Preferred term

Overdiagnosis  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The labeling of a person with a disease or abnormal condition that would not have caused the person harm if left undiscovered, creating new diagnoses by medicalizing ordinary life experiences, or expanding existing diagnoses by lowering thresholds or widening criteria without evidence of improved outcomes. Individuals derive no clinical benefit from overdiagnosis although they may experience physical, psychological or financial harm.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Over-Diagnosis
  • Pseudodisease, Over-Diagnosed
  • Pseudodisease, Overdiagnosed

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-N2KRNR6K-F

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