Focusing on overdiagnosis as a driver of too much medicine

BMJ. 2018 Aug 17:362:k3494. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k3494.

Authors

John Brodersen¹, Barnett S Kramer², Helen Macdonald³, Lisa M Schwartz⁴, Steven Woloshin⁴

Affiliations

¹ Centre of Research and Education in General Practice, Primary Healthcare Research Unit, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen jobr@sund.ku.dk.
² Division of Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
³ The BMJ, London WC1H 9JR.
⁴ Center for Medicine and the Media, Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, USA.

PMID: 30120097
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k3494

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Asymptomatic Diseases / epidemiology
Asymptomatic Diseases / therapy*
Diagnostic Tests, Routine / statistics & numerical data
Early Detection of Cancer / methods
Humans
Mass Screening / ethics*
Mass Screening / statistics & numerical data
Medical Overuse / economics*
Medical Overuse / statistics & numerical data