• Atencion primaria · Nov 2018

    Review

    [Overdiagnosis in health sciences: A scope review for Mental Health conditions].

    • Juan A López-Rodríguez.
    • Grupo de Trabajo de Salud Mental de la semFYC; Unidad de Apoyo a la Investigación, Gerencia de Atención Primaria de Madrid, Madrid, España; Centro de Salud General Ricardos, Madrid, España; Departamento de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, España; Red Temática de Investigación Cooperativa en Salud-Red de Investigación en Servicios en Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (RETICS-REDISSEC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, España. Electronic address: juanantonio.lopez@salud.madrid.org.
    • Aten Primaria. 2018 Nov 1; 50 Suppl 2 (Suppl 2): 656965-69.

    AimThe objective of this review is to update the State of the Art of the overuse, overdiagnosis and overtreatment in Mental Health.MethodsA narrative review was carried out using Medline database until 2018 and overdiagnosis related papers were selected if that was the main scope of the article, either by discusing or accounting about overdiagnosis, not just mention it.ResultsMore than 200 references were obtained related to overuse in Mental Health, 40 of the already a review. Most of them focussed on diagnostic criterias instead of estimating overdiagnosis in Mental Health. Anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder and atention deficit disorder were among the most common topics in the references.ConclusionThe lack of objective criterias and the variety in the terminology could facilitate overdiagnosis in Mental Health.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…