Overdiagnosis

Call to improve transparent communication in direct-to-consumer test marketing – Emma Grundtvig Gram et al.

2024-08-06T11:23:30+10:00HPV, Imaging, Low-value care, Overdiagnosis, Overtesting, Overuse, Publications, Screening, Tests, Too much|

All tests ‘(…) do harm; some do good as well, and, of these, some do more good than harm at reasonable cost.’ - Muir Gray and Angela Raffle. Medical tests are widely and increasingly marketed directly to consumers via traditional and social media. Such tests may [...]

Estimating the magnitude and healthcare costs of melanoma in situ and thin invasive melanoma overdiagnosis in Australia – Daniel Lindsay et al.

2024-07-30T15:40:18+10:00Cancer, Melanoma, Overdiagnosis, Overtreatment, Publications, Risk|

Research suggests a high proportion of melanoma in situ (MIS) may be overdiagnosed, potentially contributing to overtreatment, patient harm and inflated costs for individuals and healthcare systems. However, Australia-wide estimates of the magnitude of melanoma overdiagnosis are potentially outdated and there has been no estimation of the [...]

Breast cancer screening from age 40 in the US – Katy JL Bell et al.

2024-07-30T11:45:58+10:00Breast cancer, Cancer, Health policy, Overdiagnosis, Publications, Risk, Screening, Women's health|

The US Preventive Services Task Force has updated its recommendation for the age when all women should start mammography screening, lowering it from 50 to 40. This change immediately affects more than 20 million American women and other people assigned female at birth who are [...]

Social Media Promotion of Health Tests With Potential for Overdiagnosis or Overuse: Protocol for a Content Analysis – Brooke Nickel et al

2024-07-30T12:08:10+10:00Conflicts of interest, Low-value care, Overdiagnosis, Overuse, Publications, Screening, Tests|

In recent years, social media have emerged as important spaces for commercial marketing of health tests, which can be used for the screening and diagnosis of otherwise generally healthy people. However, little is known about how health tests are promoted on social media, whether the [...]

Less is more for greener intensive care – Katy J. L. Bell & Rachel Stancliffe

2024-06-05T13:31:10+10:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Climate change, End of life, Low-value care, Overdiagnosis, Overtesting, Publications, Sustainable health care|

Climate change threatens human health and increases demand for healthcare. Global temperature is rising in near linear relationship with increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere, bringing hotter and more extreme weather. Health consequences include direct injuries, deaths and illness, and indirect effects such as [...]

Kidney trajectory charts improve GP management of patients with reduced kidney function: a randomised controlled vignette study – Michelle Guppy et al.

2024-06-04T12:22:26+10:00Ageing, Health professionals, Kidney, Overdiagnosis, Primary Care, Publications|

This randomised case vignette study showed that having access to a chart that graphs percentile kidney function (eGFR) by age was associated with more appropriate management review periods for the patient cases with reduced kidney function. In the case of the older woman with stable [...]

Systematic review and meta-analysis of prognostic characteristics for breast cancers in populations with digital vs film mammography indicate the transition may have increased both early detection and overdiagnosis – Rachel Farber et al.

2024-06-03T15:58:10+10:00Breast cancer, Cancer, Imaging, Overdiagnosis, Publications, Screening, Women's health|

Film mammography has been replaced by digital mammography in breast screening programs globally. This led to a small increase in the rate of detection, but whether the detection of clinically important cancers increased is uncertain. We aimed to assess the impact on tumor characteristics of [...]

Breast Cancer Stage and Size Detected with Film versus Digital Mammography in New South Wales, Australia: A Population-Based Study Using Routinely Collected Data – Rachel Farber et al.

2024-04-07T16:18:13+10:00Breast cancer, Cancer, Imaging, Overdiagnosis, Publications, Screening|

Digital mammography has replaced film mammography in breast screening programs globally, including Australia. This led to an increase in the rate of detection, but whether there was increased detection of clinically important cancers is uncertain. In this population-wide retrospective cohort study in New South Wales, [...]

Effectiveness of hybrid digital breast tomosynthesis/digital mammography compared to digital mammography in women presenting for routine screening at Maroondah BreastScreen: Study protocol for a co-designed, non-randomised prospective trial – Nehmat Houssami et al.

2024-04-07T15:49:03+10:00Breast cancer, Breast density, Cancer, Imaging, Overdiagnosis, Publications, Screening|

Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) for breast cancer screening has been shown in international trials to increase cancer detection compared with mammography; however, results have varied across screening settings, and currently there is limited and conflicting evidence on interval cancer rates (a surrogate for screening effectiveness). [...]

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