Sentences with word «overdiagnosis»

Using malaria rapid diagnostic tests in registered drug shops in a highly endemic region in Uganda substantially reduced overdiagnosis of malaria, improving the use of valuable malaria drugs, according to a new study published in PLOS ONE.

Etzioni speculated that the difference in overdiagnosis rates between blacks and whites in her study might reflect that there is a larger pool of black men who would be found to have prostate tumors upon autopsy than white men.

Clearer, but less dramatic, evidence for overdiagnosis comes from a 2012 study in which psychologist Katrin Bruchmüller of the University of Basel and her colleagues found that when given hypothetical vignettes of children who fell short of the DSM - IV diagnosis, about 17 percent of the 1,000 mental health professionals surveyed mistakenly diagnosed the kids with ADHD.

... Given today's concerns regarding health care cost growth, especially the portion attributable to noninvasive cardiac imaging, and patient safety issues related to radiation exposure as well as overdiagnosis, performing such a study should be a priority,» the study concludes.

«Researchers develop tool to determine individual risk of prostate cancer overdiagnosis.»

They recognize the problems arising from overdiagnosis and overtreatment, but they also see people suffering from painful metastases or dying from the disease.

«The USPSTF limited its consideration to studies that underestimate the lifesaving benefit of regular screening and greatly inflate overdiagnosis claims.

Features Dr. H. Gilbert Welch in an article exploring what medical tests are most useful to patients to help prevent disease while avoiding overdiagnosis.

While I do believe that there are children who suffer from a sleep disorder, I firmly believe this is a case in which we have a very clear overdiagnosis problem happening.

«Thyroid tumor reclassified to curb overdiagnosis of cancer.»

«The issue is not overdiagnosis, but overtreatment,» he says.

These features may «promote overdiagnosis of psychopathy,» they wrote.

In context, the risk of death from prostate cancer is about 3 percent, so the potential overdiagnosis ratio is on the order of 10 or 20 to 1.

This lack of transparency, lack of breast cancer expertise, and exclusion of studies that would support screening effectiveness and lower overdiagnosis estimates may result in unnecessary lives lost,» said Murray Rebner, MD, FSBI, president of the Society of Breast Imaging (SBI).

The decline reflects efforts to decrease overdiagnosis and overtreatment — preventing some unnecessary treatments that can cause long - term impact on quality of life, while still providing life - saving care to patients who need it.

Nevertheless, debates about overdiagnosis, as well as preferred treatments, are sharper than ever.

According to many critics, such overdiagnosis raises the specter of medicalizing largely normal behavior and relying too heavily on pills rather than skills — such as teaching children better ways of coping with stress.

Other solutions include developing better screening tools to limit overdiagnosis as well as improving education and raising awareness among athletes and health professionals.

But with overdiagnosis moving further in to the spotlight, and with our strong commitment to diagnosing cancers earlier, researchers are better placed than ever to tackle this.

But it also comes with potential harms, including overdiagnosis, because many of those early invasive breast cancers wouldn't have gone on to cause trouble.

Revisiting overdiagnosis and fatality in thyroid cancer.

Once the exam and procedure is complete we will contact you to arrange a time for pick up and to go overdiagnosis and discharge.

It's not exactly a revolutionary thought that perhaps overdiagnosis of these conditions occurs, or that people would prefer to «blame a disease» (in your words) instead of what people often call «taking responsibility for your feelings», by which they mean, «suck it up, princess.»

Does industry - sponsored education foster overdiagnosis and overtreatment of depression, osteoporosis and overactive bladder syndrome?

And Business Insider Australia argued that our inability to accept that mistakes inevitably happen has led to a culture of medical overdiagnosis and overtreatment in the western world, citing a recent study from the UK.

Doing something like this does also comes with risks for overdiagnosis, even if the research is successful; a regular test for cancer risks causing many people to receive potentially dangerous treatment for cancers that wouldn't have seriously impacted their health in the long run, according to José Baselga, Physician - in - Chief and Chief Medical Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering.

«This phenomenon is known as overdiagnosis,» Dr. Nikiforov said.

Though the optimal scenario is actually estimated to catch fewer lung cancers than the criteria used in the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) in the US, the authors predict this more stringent scenario would require fewer CT scans, and lead to fewer false positive screens and lung cancer overdiagnosis, which can lead to patient harm.

«Overdiagnosis of UTI [urinary tract infection] was not only a common cause of unnecessary antibiotic use but also contributed to the underdiagnosis of STI [sexually transmitted infection] since 64 percent of the patients with a missed STI were diagnosed as having a UTI instead,» the investigators write.

THE BIOPSY»S DANGEROUS CASCADE: HOW TO LESSEN THE NEED FOR INVASIVE TESTING Intervention Track Hosted By: Insigniam Current medical tests are too often marred by high rates of overdiagnosis («false positive» results) or they too often miss the danger altogether («false negatives»).

Profiles Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, who has spent much of his career warning of the dangers of overdiagnosis, which can lead to unnecessary procedures and even harm patients that are otherwise healthy.

Generally, it's NOT recommended that you do a full food allergen panel because this can lead to overdiagnosis of food allergy or unnecessary food restrictions.

Overdiagnosis of allergy in unsettled breastfed infants and associated maternal elimination diets has increased the risk of allergy in later infancy or childhood

The number and impact of these cases are, however, likely to be small because this type of overdiagnosis would dilute the associations and bias the relative risks toward unity.

Overdiagnosis is a particular concern among women with limited life expectancies, either due to age or some other condition.

However, according to Keating, the chief harm associated with mammography is the risk of overdiagnosis.

One result, says Kenji Shibuya, a public health specialist at University of Tokyo, was «overdiagnosis and overtreatment,» leading dozens of children to have their thyroids removed, perhaps unnecessarily.

Science and sociology historian Aronowitz suggests that our market - driven, risk management - focused health care culture has led to excessive tests and overdiagnosis.

While the findings are counterintuitive, «the study adds to growing evidence that periodic exams in otherwise healthy adults are a waste of money and may even lead to overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatments,» says medical researcher Lasse Krogsboll of the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Copenhagen.

The potential for harm clearly exists, including a high rate of unnecessary biopsies, possibly resulting in cosmetic or, more rarely, functional adverse effects, and the risk of overdiagnosis and overtreatment.

Potential harms of skin cancer screening include misdiagnosis, overdiagnosis, and the resulting cosmetic and — more rarely — functional adverse effects resulting from biopsy and overtreatment.

This leads to overdiagnosis and sometimes, overmedicating.

By 2012, studies comparing men who undergo PSA testing to men who do not had found that the harms of testing (false positives, overdiagnosis, impotence, incontinence) outweigh the benefits.