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Preventing overdiagnosis

Evidenced based practice should reduce overdiagnosis and overtreatment

BMJ 2012; 344 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e4296 (Published 25 June 2012)
Cite this as: BMJ 2012;344:e4296

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  1. Huw Llewelyn, general physician and endocrinologist1
  1. 1Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny NP7 7EG, UK
  1. hul2{at}aber.ac.uk

Overdiagnosis can result from failure to practise evidence based medicine properly.1 The positive result of any screening test should be dealt with in the same way as a presenting symptom, by carefully considering its evidence based differential diagnosis. It may turn out to …

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