Overdiagnosis vs Overdiagnoses - What's the difference?
overdiagnosis | overdiagnoses |
(medicine) To diagnose something too frequently, or based on insufficient evidence
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 2, author=H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz And Steven Woloshin, title=What’s Making Us Sick Is an Epidemic of Diagnoses, work=New York Times
, passage=While failing to make a diagnosis can result in lawsuits, there are no corresponding penalties for overdiagnosis . }}
(overdiagnose)
(medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs
*{{quote-news, 2009, January 11, Jeanne Dorin Mcdowell, The Four (at Least) Faces of Tara, New York Times
, passage=Dissociative identity disorder is a contentious diagnosis: some professionals say the disorder is overdiagnosed ; others say it doesn't even exist. }}
As a noun overdiagnosis
is (medicine) to diagnose something too frequently, or based on insufficient evidence.As a verb overdiagnoses is
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