Expanding disease and undermining the ethos of medicine

Recognise obesity as a disease to reduce prevalence, says RCP

(2019) Zosia Kmietowicz   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Editorial: Approaches of the treatment of DCIS

(2018) Steven A. Narod   BREAST

Will biomarker-based diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease maximize scientific progress? Evaluating proposed diagnostic criteria

(2018) Medellena Maria Glymour et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Looking for trouble? Diagnostics expanding disease and producing patients

(2018) Bjørn Hofmann   JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Is an indistinct picture “exactly what we need”? Objectivity, accuracy, and harm in imaging for cancer

(2018) Lynette Reid   JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Moving low value care lists into action: prioritizing candidate health technologies for reassessment using administrative data

(2018) Lesley J. J. Soril et al.   BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH

Renaming low risk conditions labelled as cancer

(2018) Brooke Nickel et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Social prescribing: less rhetoric and more reality. A systematic review of the evidence

(2017) Liz Bickerdike et al.   BMJ Open

New diagnostic tests: more harm than good

(2017) Bjørn Hofmann et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

New diagnostic tests: more harm than good

(2017) Bjørn Hofmann et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Guidance for Modifying the Definition of Diseases

(2017) Jenny Doust et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

Getting clearer on overdiagnosis

(2016) Wendy A. Rogers et al.   JOURNAL OF EVALUATION IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Why Do Health Economists Promote Technology Adoption Rather Than the Search for Efficiency? A Proposal for a Change in Our Approach to Economic Evaluation in Health Care

(2016) Graham Scotland et al.   MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Overdiagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism by Pulmonary CT Angiography

(2015) Barry Donald Hutchinson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY

FROM TALK TO ACTION: POLICY STAKEHOLDERS, APPROPRIATENESS, AND SELECTIVE DISINVESTMENT

(2015) P. Alison Paprica et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE

Addressing overdiagnosis and overtreatment in cancer: a prescription for change

(2014) Laura J Esserman et al.   LANCET ONCOLOGY

When a test is too good: how CT pulmonary angiograms find pulmonary emboli that do not need to be found

(2013) R. S. Wiener et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Embolism

(2012) Vinay Prasad et al.   ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Breaking up is hard to do: why disinvestment in medical technology is harder than investment

(2012) Marion Haas et al.   Australian Health Review

A brief historicity of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Issues and implications for the future of psychiatric canon and practice

(2012) Shadia Kawa et al.   Philosophy Ethics and Humanities in Medicine

Physician liability: the next big thing for personalized medicine?

(2011) Gary E Marchant et al.   Personalized Medicine

Overdiagnosis in Cancer

(2010) H. G. Welch et al.   JNCI-Journal of the National Cancer Institute