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overdiagnosis: a standalone construct

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Clinical epidemiology

diagnosis of a condition, often found by screening, that would never have caused symptoms or death during the person's lifetime.

In clinical epidemiology, overdiagnosis refers to diagnosis of a condition, often found by screening, that would never have caused symptoms or death during the person's lifetime. This meaning comes from Welch (2010) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute.[1]

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References

Welch, H. G., & Black, W. C. (2010). Overdiagnosis in Cancer. JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 102(9), 605-613. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djq099

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