• DOI:10.1542/peds.2014-1778
Corpus ID: 10441386

Overdiagnosis: How Our Compulsion for Diagnosis May Be Harming Children

@article{Coon2014OverdiagnosisHO,
  title={Overdiagnosis: How Our Compulsion for Diagnosis May Be Harming Children},
  author={Eric R. Coon and Ricardo A. Quinonez and V. Moyer and A. Schroeder},
  journal={Pediatrics},
  year={2014},
  volume={134},
  pages={1013 - 1023}
}

Eric R. Coon, Ricardo A. Quinonez, +1 author A. Schroeder

Published 2014

Medicine

Pediatrics

Overdiagnosis occurs when a true abnormality is discovered, but detection of that abnormality does not benefit the patient. It should be distinguished from misdiagnosis, in which the diagnosis is inaccurate, and it is not synonymous with overtreatment or overuse, in which excess medication or procedures are provided to patients for both correct and incorrect diagnoses. Overdiagnosis for adult conditions has gained a great deal of recognition over the last few years, led by realizations that… CONTINUE READING

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