Open AccessThe challenge of overdiagnosis begins with its definition
Author(s) -
Stacy M. Carter,
Wendy Rogers,
Iona Heath,
Chris Degeling,
Jenny Doust,
Alex Barratt
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
bmj
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.831
H-Index - 429
ISSN - 1756-1833
DOI - 10.1136/bmj.h869
Subject(s) - overdiagnosis , term (time) , medicine , intensive care medicine , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , pathology , physics , quantum mechanics
Overdiagnosis means different things to different people. S M Carter and colleagues argue that we should use a broad term such as too much medicine for advocacy and develop precise, case by case definitions of overdiagnosis for research and clinical purposes.5 page(s
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