Guidelines for preventive activities in general practice
Screening, case finding and prevention principles
All clinicians need to be mindful of overdiagnosis. Overdiagnosis happens when a patient’s diagnosis causes them more harm than good. This can happen when a healthy person undertakes a screening test and is diagnosed with a very early form of a disease, but that disease would never have developed further to cause your patient any symptoms.1,2 Harms of overdiagnosis include:
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