Objectives: To determine the total annual screening and further-investigation costs of investigating false-positive and true-positive mammograms in the Australian population breast-screening program.
Overdiagnosis and overuse of healthcare services harm individuals, take resources that could be used to address underuse, and threaten the sustainability of health systems. These problems are attracting increasing attention in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Unaware of any review of relevant evidence, we conducted [...]
Last week, actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney released a video of themselves getting colonoscopies to encourage others to undergo screening. The procedure detected polyps in the two men, both aged 45...
November 2021 Wiser Healthcare welcomes the opportunity to provide our views on the Australian Department of Health's 10-year plan for Primary Health Care with the aim of strengthening the primary health care system to deliver the best health outcomes for Australians. [...]
Most of the major advances in health and life expectancy over the past couple of hundred years weren’t due to modern medicine, but to public health, political and industrial achievements, such as clean water supply, sewerage separation, having enough food and avoiding war.
Medical procedures that don’t help the patient, overdiagnosis, the ‘medicalisation of normal’… two doctors argue that it has to stop.
This study investigated trends in computed tomography (CT) utilisation across different triage categories of injury presentations to tertiary emergency departments (EDs) and associations with diagnostic yield measured by injury severity, hospitalisation and length of stay (LOS) and mortality.
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 [...]
Listeners and experts discuss on the downsides of medical professionals sending patients off for unnecessary tests and investigations, and what happens when you go bush to unplug from life's complications.