Published in:
01-09-2014 | COMMENTARY
Diagnosing overdiagnosis: conceptual challenges and suggested solutions
Author:
Bjorn Hofmann
Published in:
European Journal of Epidemiology
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Issue 9/2014
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Excerpt
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 significant costs [
1]. In the USA it is estimated that it results in more than $200bn wasted on unnecessary treatment every year [
3], and that 30 % of the health care spending is on ineffective measures [
4,
5]. …