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Overdiagnosis



Overdiagnosis can mean either:

  • The diagnosis of a disease at an asymptomatic stage when it would not have had a chance to become symptomatic because the patient died in between.
  • The false positive result of the application of diagnostic criteria that would not have given symptoms during the lifetime of a patient.

Screening programs increase both kinds of overdiagnosis.

References

  • Zahl, Per-Henrik and Jan Maehlen (2007). "Constant relative survival rates in Sweden and Norway when adjusting for screening-related overdiagnosis" in Int J Cancer 2007 Jan 17.
 
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