{"id":7137,"date":"2014-07-22T15:59:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T14:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T15:01:51","slug":"overdiagnosis-is-harming-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/07\/overdiagnosis-is-harming-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Overdiagnosis is harming patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the downside of always improved diagnostic procedures. With science progress and more information available, many information pieces are unvalidated and have a duobtful prognostic and therapeutic value. They even harm patients, possibly by further and unnnecesssary (dangerous) procedures but also increased insurance rates. The problem has been excellently described 2 years ago by Ray Moynihan, Jenny Doust, and David Henry in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/344\/bmj.e3502\">BMJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2014-07-22-um-14.46.17.jpg\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7138\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2014-07-22-um-14.46.17.jpg\" alt=\"Bildschirmfoto 2014-07-22 um 14.46.17\" width=\"835\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2014-07-22-um-14.46.17.jpg 835w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2014-07-22-um-14.46.17-620x470.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Bildschirmfoto-2014-07-22-um-14.46.17-658x500.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only recently I learned that there is now even a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.preventingoverdiagnosis.net\">conference series<\/a> how top stop harming the healthy. An own pubmed analysis showed zero interest in 1970, then gradually increasing until 2010 up to about 100 papers\/year while\u00a0now\u00a0doubling in the last 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 20.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the downside of always improved diagnostic procedures. With science progress and more information available, many information pieces are unvalidated and have a duobtful prognostic and therapeutic value. They even harm patients, possibly by further and unnnecesssary (dangerous) procedures but also increased insurance rates. The problem has been excellently described 2 years ago by Ray &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2014\/07\/overdiagnosis-is-harming-patients\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Overdiagnosis is harming patients<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2886,2887,2888],"class_list":["post-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asthma-allergy","tag-misdiagnosis","tag-overdiagnosis","tag-wrong-diagnosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7143,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}