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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
Olmos, Rodrigo Diaz.
Affiliation
  • Olmos, Rodrigo Diaz; Universidade de São Paulo. Hospital Universitário. Divisão de Clínica Médica. São Paulo. BR
Interface (Botucatu, Online) ; 25: e210636, 2021.
Article in Pt | LILACS | ID: biblio-1350862
Responsible library: 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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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: LILACS Main subject: Unnecessary Procedures / Medical Overuse Type of study: Diagnostic_studies Limits: Adult / Female / Humans Language: Pt Journal: Interface (Botucatu, Online) Journal subject: Educa‡Æo / Sa£de P£blica Year: 2021 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Brazil Country of publication: Brazil

Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: LILACS Main subject: Unnecessary Procedures / Medical Overuse Type of study: Diagnostic_studies Limits: Adult / Female / Humans Language: Pt Journal: Interface (Botucatu, Online) Journal subject: Educa‡Æo / Sa£de P£blica Year: 2021 Document type: Article Affiliation country: Brazil Country of publication: Brazil