Sobrediagnóstico: prejudicando pacientes em nome da saúde / Sobrediagnóstico: daño a las personas en nombre da la salud / Overdiagnosis: harming people in the name of health
Interface (Botucatu, Online)
; 25: e210636, 2021.
Article
in Pt
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| ID: biblio-1350862
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BR33.1
RESUMO
À medida que os avanços médico-tecnológicos continuam a se tornar mais facilmente disponíveis, o diagnóstico de pseudo-doenças atingiu o cerne dos sistemas de saúde e tornou-se uma das atividades mais prejudiciais da medicina moderna, tanto individual quanto coletivamente, pois ameaça a sustentabilidade dos sistemas de saúde. Aqui descrevemos um caso hipotético, mas baseado em casos reais, de uma jovem de 36 anos diagnosticada com um carcinoma papilífero de tireoide após ter sido submetida a um check-up excessivo e desnecessário solicitado por um ginecologista em uma consulta de rotina. (AU)
ABSTRACT
As medical technological advances continue to become more readily available, diagnosis of pseudo-disease has hit the heart of medicine and has become one of the most harmful activities in modern medicine, both individually and collectively speaking as it threatens the sustainability of health systems. Here we describe a hypothetical case (but based on many similar real ones) of a young adult woman in her middle 30's that has been diagnosed with a papillary thyroid cancer after she had been submitted to an excessive and unnecessary check-up elicited by a gynaecologist in a routine medical consultation. (AU)
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
LILACS
Main subject:
Unnecessary Procedures
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Medical Overuse
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Language:
Pt
Journal:
Interface (Botucatu, Online)
Journal subject:
EducaÆo
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Sa£de P£blica
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Country of publication:
Brazil