Overdiagnosis

Overdiagnosis is increasing the carbon footprint of healthcare – Alex Barratt & Forbes McGain

2021-10-05T10:41:21+11:00Carbon footprint, Carbon neutral, Overdiagnosis, Publications|

Clinical practice varies—some is excellent, delivering high quality care, improving health outcomes, and representing excellent value for money. But research over the past two decades has established that a significant minority of clinical care is low value, wasteful, or harmful. At the extreme end of [...]

Journalists’ views on media coverage of medical tests and overdiagnosis: a qualitative study – Mary O’Keeffe et al.

2021-07-16T14:19:06+10:00Media, Overdiagnosis, Overtesting, Overuse, Publications|

Promotional media coverage of early detection tests is an important driver of overdiagnosis. Following research evidence that global media coverage presents the benefits of testing healthy people far more frequently than harms, and gives little coverage to overdiagnosis, we sought to examine journalists’ views on [...]

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