Australian experts have banded together to launch an organisation dedicated to tackling unnecessary and harmful diagnoses, as the threat from increasingly sophisticated diagnostic technology grows. The collaboration, backed by doctor and consumer health organisations, aims to better grasp the scope of overdiagnosis in society and [...]
There is growing international awareness of overdiagnosis as a major challenge for heath systems and societies alike. It is a complex problem, and thus requires a multi-faceted response on a national scale. To address this, a group of prominent clinical, consumer, research and public organisations [...]
Ros Childs interviews Doctor Ray Moynihan, Bond University, about the push to address overdiagnosis and unnecessary treatment as a result of early detection of disease due to the advances in medical technology.
Australia’s chief medical officer has backed moves to protect patients and safeguard the sustainability of the health system against the growing problem of too much medicine. Overdiagnosis is exposing healthy people to tests and treatments that are at best useless, and at worst trigger aggressive procedures with [...]
Medical misdiagnosis remains a very real issue and Australia is leading the way in finding a solution. Senior Research Fellow at Bond University Dr Raymond Moynihan told Neil Mitchell Australia is “leading the world” is finding a way to curb the problem...
Australia’s chief medical officer has backed moves to protect patients and safeguard the sustainability of the health system against the growing problem of too much medicine. Overdiagnosis is exposing healthy people to tests and treatments that are at best useless, and at worst trigger aggressive procedures with [...]
Major health groups are calling for a national action plan to address overdiagnosis, signalling a mainstream recognition of the issue...
Five prominent Australian healthcare organisations are calling for a national plan to stop overdiagnosis and overtreatment. They issued a statement outlining how some medical conditions are being diagnosed too often, and that the practice is causing harm...
Prominent Australian health bodies are calling for a national plan to stop over diagnosis and overtreatment. A statement, endorsed by organisations including the College of General Practitioners, says the practice is causing harm. Breast cancer screening and tests for prostate cancer are among the culprits.
Receiving a diagnosis of a dreaded disease is surely one of the saddest things that can ever happen to us. But what if some of those diagnoses were unnecessary? Growing evidence suggests doctors are diagnosing many diseases far too frequently, and this problem of "over-diagnosis" is [...]