How to diagnose overdiagnosis

Overdiagnosis means different things to different people. Stacy Carter, associate professor at the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine at the University of Sydney argues that we should use a broad term such as too much medicine for advocacy and develop precise, case by case definitions of overdiagnosis for research and clinical purposes. Read the full analysis article: http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h869 For the full overdiagnosis digital edition: http://www.bmj.com/specialties/digital-theme-issue-overdiagnosis