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 …

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) …

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 …

Overdiagnosis is a fundamental challenge to modern health care [1]. It is claimed to be ''the
biggest problem posed by modern medicine''[2], leading to unnecessary suffering and …

The past few decades have seen medical science making rapid strides in the field of
diagnostic technologies, thus making it possible to detect some conditions at a very early …

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 …

Overdiagnosis is a growing problem worldwide. Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of
deviations, abnormalities, risk factors, and pathologies that in themselves would never …

Evidence is mounting that medicine is harming healthy people through ever earlier detection
and ever wider definition of disease. With the announcement of an international conference …

Overdiagnosis, is defined as the diagnosis of a condition that, if unrecognized, would not
cause symptoms or harm a patient during his or her lifetime, and it is increasingly …

Overdiagnosis occurs when a true abnormality is discovered, but detection of that
abnormality does not benefit the patient. It should be distinguished from misdiagnosis, in …