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Överdiagnostik  – vad är det?: INTRODUKTION TILL BEGREPPET [What is overdiagnosis?]
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Omtanken vårdcentral, Kållered, Sverige.
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Linköping University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Linköping University, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Division of Prevention, Rehabilitation and Community Medicine. Region Östergötland, Primary Care Center, Primary Health Care Center Åby.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5107-6131
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2023 (Swedish)In: Läkartidningen, ISSN 0023-7205, E-ISSN 1652-7518, Vol. 120Article, review/survey (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

A considerable amount of spending in health care is deemed wasteful. Overdiagnosis, i.e. the labelling of a person with a diagnosis that lacks net benefit, is an entity within the overarching concept of »too much medicine«. Overdiagnosis includes overdetection and overdefinition. Disease mongering is a type of overdefinition with economic drivers. Overtesting and overtreatment are other aspects of »too much medicine«, but are not overdiagnosis per se. Medical research tends to focus on benefits of diagnostics and therapy, whereas overdiagnosis and other harms receive less attention, leading to overestimation of benefits. The international network Choosing Wisely has been successful in changing the diagnostic mindset in several countries and a Swedish campaign is under way, yielding new possibilities to counteract »too much medicine« and the specific problem of overdiagnosis.

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De flesta förstår att överbehandling med läkemedel är skadligt och kostsamt. Det är inte lika självklart att  även utredningar, undersökningar och diagnos sät tning kan ge negativa konsekvenser. För att finna lösningar  på de omfattande problemen med överanvändning av medicinska resurser och överdiagnostik, behövs ökad kunskap om vad det är och vad det beror på [1, 2]. Målet med denna artikel är att ge en introduktion till begreppet överdiagnostik och klargöra hur det förhåller sig till andra begrepp inom överanvändning av medicins ka resurser, i syfte att underlätta en konstruktiv diskussion om lämpliga åtgärder. 

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Sveriges Läkarförbund , 2023. Vol. 120
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-202777PubMedID: 37965866Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85185122715OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-202777DiVA, id: diva2:1854616
Available from: 2024-04-26 Created: 2024-04-26 Last updated: 2025-12-10

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