Overdiagnosed : making people sick in the pursuit of health / H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa M. Schwartz, Steven Woloshin.

• Genesis : people become patients with high blood pressure -- We change the rules : how numbers get changed to give you diabetes, high cholesterol, and osteoporosis -- We are able to see more : how scans give you gallstones, damaged knee cartilage, bulging discs, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and blood clots -- We look harder for prostate cancer : how screening made it clear that overdiagnosis exists in cancer -- We look harder for other cancers -- We look harder for breast cancer -- We stumble onto incidentalomas that might be cancer -- We look harder for everything else : how screening gives you (and your baby) another set of problems -- We confuse DNA with disease : how genetic testing will give you almost anything -- Get the facts -- Get the system -- Get the big picture -- Conclusion : pursuing health with less diagnosis.

• Examining the social, medical, and economic ramifications of a health care system that unnecessarily diagnoses and treats patients, Welch makes a reasoned call for change that would save us from countless unneeded surgeries, debilitating anxiety, and exorbitant costs.

Ämnesord

Massundersökningar (medicin)  (sao)

Feldiagnoser  (sao)

Feldiagnoser  (sao)

Diagnostic errors.  (LCSH)

Medical misconceptions.  (LCSH)

Medical screening.  (LCSH)

Early Diagnosis.  (MeSH)

Health Policy.  (MeSH)

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures  -- ethics. (MeSH)

Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures  -- utilization. (MeSH)

Early Detection of Cancer  -- ethics. (MeSH)

Early Detection of Cancer  -- utilization. (MeSH)

Diagnostic errors  (LCSH)

Medical screening  (LCSH)

Diagnostic errors  (LCSH)

Publikations- och innehållstyp

RC71.3 (LCC)

WB 60 (NLM)

2011 C-100 (NLM)

616.0754 (DDC)

616.07/54 (DDC)

Vea (kssb/8 (machine generated))