Getting clearer on overdiagnosis

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 580-587

  Rogers, Wendy A ^a   Mintzker, Yishai ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

diagnosis; epistemology; philosophy of medicine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CANCER SCREENING; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CANCER;

EID: 84978766184     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jep.12556     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Carter, S. M., Rogers, W., Heath, I., Degeling, C., Doust, J. & Barratt, A. (2015) The challenge of overdiagnosis begins with its definition. BMJ, 350, h869.
2. Welch, H. G. & Black, W. C. (2010) Overdiagnosis in cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 102 (9), 605–13.
3. Moynihan, R., Doust, J. & Henry, D. (2012) Preventing overdiagnosis: how to stop harming the healthy. BMJ, 344, e3502.
4. Frances, A. (2013) The new crisis of confidence in psychiatric diagnosis. Annals of Internal Medicine, 159 (3), 221–2.
5. Batstra, L., Hadders-Algra, M., Nieweg, E., Van Tol, D., Pijl, S. J. & Frances, A. (2012) Childhood emotional and behavioral problems: reducing overdiagnosis without risking undertreatment. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 54 (6), 492–4.
6. Hofmann, B. (2014) Diagnosing overdiagnosis: conceptual challenges and suggested solutions. European Journal of Epidemiology, 29, 599–604.
7. Moynihan, R. N., Cooke, G. P. E., Doust, J. A., Bero, L., Hill, S. & Glasziou, P. P. (2013) Expanding disease definitions in guidelines and expert panel ties to industry: a cross-sectional study of common conditions in the United States. PLoS Medicine, 10 (8), e1001500.
8. Wiener, R. S., Schwartz, L. M. & Woloshin, S. (2013) When a test is too good: how CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found. BMJ, 347, f3368.
9. Harris, R., Sheridan, S. & Kinsinger, L. (2012) Time to rethink screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm? Archives of Internal Medicine, 172 (19), 1462–3.
10. DeFrank, J. T., Barclay, C., Sheridan, S., et al. (2015) The psychological harms of screening: the evidence we have versus the evidence we need. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 30 (2), 242–83.
11. Gøtzsche, P. C. & Jørgensen, K. J. (2013) Screening for breast cancer with mammography. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 6, CD001877.
12. Zackrisson, S., Andersson, I., Janzon, L., Manjer, J. & Garne, J. P. (2006) Rate of over-diagnosis of breast cancer 15 years after end of Malmö mammographic screening trial: follow-up study. BMJ, 332 (7543), 689–92.
13. Brito, J. P., Davies, L., Zeballos-Palacios, C., Morris, J. C. & Montori, V. M. (2014) Papillary lesions of indolent course: reducing the overdiagnosis of indolent papillary thyroid cancer and unnecessary treatment. Future Oncology, 10 (1), 1–4.
14. Weyers, W. (2012) The ‘epidemic’ of melanoma between under- and overdiagnosis. Journal of Cutaneous Pathology, 39 (1), 9–16.
15. Bach, P. B. (2008) Overdiagnosis in lung cancer: different perspectives, definitions, implications. Thorax, 63 (4), 298–300.
16. Timimi, S. (2004) ADHD is best understood as a cultural construct. British Journal of Psychiatry, 184 (1), 8–9.
17. Thomas, R., Mitchell, G. K. & Batstra, L. (2013) Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: are we helping or harming? BMJ, 347, f6172.
18. Dowrick, C. & Frances, A. (2013) Medicalising unhappiness: new classification of depression risks more patients being put on drug treatment from which they will not benefit. BMJ, 347, f7140.
19. Mitchell, P. B. (2012) Bipolar disorder: the shift to overdiagnosis. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 57 (11), 659–65.
20. Reyburn, H., Mbatia, R., Drakeley, C., et al. (2004) Overdiagnosis of malaria in patients with severe febrile illness in Tanzania: a prospective study. BMJ, 329 (7476), 1212.
21. Wakefield, J. C. (1992) The concept of mental disorder. On the boundary between biological facts and social values. American Psychologist, 47 (3), 373–88.
22. Engelhardt, H. T. & Spicker, S. F. (eds) (1975) Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.
23. Boorse, C. (1977) Health as a theoretical concept. Philosophy of Science, 44, 542–573.
24. Marcus, P. M., Bergstralh, E. J., Zweig, M. H., Harris, A., Offord, K. P. & Fontana, R. S. (2006) Extended lung cancer incidence follow-up in the Mayo Lung Project and overdiagnosis. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 98 (11), 748–56.
25. Berggren, E. K., Boggess, K. A., Stuebe, A. M. & Jonsson, F. M. (2011) National diabetes data group vs carpenter-coustan criteria to diagnose gestational diabetes. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 205 (3), 253.e1–7.
26. National Kidney Foundation. (2002) K/DOQI clinical practical guidelines for chronic kidney disease: evaluation, classification, and stratification. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 39 (2 Suppl 1), S1–S266.
27. Moynihan, R., Glassock, R. & Doust, J. (2013) Chronic kidney disease controversy: how expanding definitions are unnecessarily labelling many people as diseased. BMJ, 347, f4298.
28. Pickering, T. G. (2006) Now we are sick: labeling and hypertension. Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 8 (1), 57–60.
29. Moynihan, R. (2002) Selling sickness: the pharmaceutical industry and disease mongering. BMJ, 324 (7342), 886–91.
30. Parker, G. (2007) Is depression overdiagnosed? Yes. BMJ, 335 (7615), 328.
31. Schwartz, L. M. & Woloshin, S. (2013) Low ‘T’ as in ‘template’: how to sell disease. JAMA International Medicine, 173 (15), 1460–2.
32. Ahn, H. S., Kim, H. J. & Welch, H. G. (2014) Korea's thyroid-cancer ‘epidemic’–screening and overdiagnosis. New England Journal of Medicine, 371 (19), 1765–7.
33. Brito, J. P., Al Nofal, A., Montori, V. M., Hay, I. D. & Morris, J. C. (2015) The impact of subclinical disease and mechanism of detection on the rise in thyroid cancer incidence: a population-based study in Olmsted county, Minnesota during 1935 through 2012. Thyroid, 25 (9), 999–1007.
34. Harach, H. R., Franssila, K. O. & Wasenius, V. M. (1985) Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. A ‘normal’ finding in Finland. A systematic autopsy study. Cancer, 56 (3), 531–8.
35. de Matos, P. S., Ferreira, A. P. C. & Ward, L. S. (2006) Prevalence of papillary microcarcinoma of the thyroid in Brazilian autopsy and surgical series. Endocrine Pathology, 17 (2), 165–73.
36. Ramos, A. M. de O, Sales Ade, O., Barbalho de Mello, L. E., et al. (2009) Absence of peritumoral fibrosis or inflammatory infiltrate may be related to clinical progression of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma. International Journal of Surgical Pathology, 17 (6), 432–7.
37. Sampson, R. J., Woolner, L. B., Bahn, R. C. & Kurland, L. T. (1974) Occult thyroid carcinoma in Olmsted County, Minnesota: prevalence at autopsy compared with that in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Cancer, 34 (6), 2072–6.
38. Yamamoto, Y., Maeda, T., Izumi, K. & Otsuka, H. (1990) Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. A study of 408 autopsy cases. Cancer, 65 (5), 1173–9.
39. Bleyer, A. & Welch, H. G. (2012) Effect of three decades of screening mammography on breast-cancer incidence. New England Journal of Medicine, 367 (21), 1998–2005.
40. Zackrisson, S., Andersson, I., Janzon, L., Manjer, J. & Garne, J. P. (2006) Rate of over-diagnosis of breast cancer 15 years after end of Malmö mammographic screening trial: follow-up study. BMJ, 332 (7543), 689–92.
41. Reich, J. M. (2008) A critical appraisal of overdiagnosis: estimates of its magnitude and implications for lung cancer screening. Thorax, 63 (4), 377–83.
42. Patz, E. F., Pinsky, P., Gatsonis, C., et al. (2014) Overdiagnosis in low-dose computed tomography screening for lung cancer. JAMA International Medicine, 174 (2), 269–74.
43. Sostman, H. D., Stein, P. D., Gottschalk, A., Matta, F., Hull, R. & Goodman, L. (2008) Acute pulmonary embolism: sensitivity and specificity of ventilation-perfusion scintigraphy in PIOPED II study. Radiology, 246 (3), 941–6.
44. Anderson, D. R., Kahn, S. R., Rodger, M. A., et al. (2007) Computed tomographic pulmonary angiography vs ventilation-perfusion lung scanning in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA, 298 (23), 2743–53.
45. Magaki, S., Yong, W. H., Khanlou, N., Tung, S. & Vinters, H. V. (2014) Comorbidity in dementia: update of an ongoing autopsy study. Journal of American Geriatrics Society, 62 (9), 1722–8.
46. Stein, P. D. & Henry, J. W. (1995) Prevalence of acute pulmonary embolism among patients in a general hospital and at autopsy. Chest, 108 (4), 978–81.
47. Stein, P. D., Matta, F., Musani, M. H. & Diaczok, B. (2010) Silent pulmonary embolism in patients with deep venous thrombosis: a systematic review. American Journal of Medicine, 123 (5), 426–31.
48. Nielsen, H. K., Husted, S. E., Krusell, L. R., Fasting, H., Charles, P. & Hansen, H. H. (1994) Silent pulmonary embolism in patients with deep venous thrombosis. Incidence and fate in a randomized, controlled trial of anticoagulation versus no anticoagulation. Journal of Internal Medicine, 235 (5), 457–61.
49. Burge, A. J., Freeman, K. D., Klapper, P. J. & Haramati, L. B. (2008) Increased diagnosis of pulmonary embolism without a corresponding decline in mortality during the CT era. Clinical Radiology, 63 (4), 381–6.
50. Wiener, R. S., Schwartz, L. M. & Woloshin, S. (2011) Time trends in pulmonary embolism in the United States: evidence of overdiagnosis. Archives of Internal Medicine, 171 (9), 831–7.
51. Stein, P. D. & Henry, J. W. (1997) Prevalence of acute pulmonary embolism in central and sub-segmental pulmonary arteries and relation to probability interpretation of ventilation/perfusion lung scans. Chest, 111 (5), 1246–8.
52. Carrier, M., Righini, M. & Le Gal, G. (2012) Symptomatic sub-segmental pulmonary embolism: what is the next step? Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 10 (8), 1486–90.
53. Haldar, S., Garg, A., Barden, S., Burkill, G. & Marchbank, N. (2013) Most patients with isolated sub-segmental pulmonary embolism do not need anticoagulants. BMJ, 347, f5127–f5127.