Overdiagnosis is Stressful

Reducing overdiagnosis in primary care is needed

Malaria overdiagnosis: is patient pressure the problem?

OBJECTIVE In Africa antimalarials are often prescribed when malaria is unlikely, a problem that is becoming critical as more expensive antimalarials replace established drugs. However, little is known about what drives the overuse of antimalarials. We conducted this study to explore to what extent current prescribing behaviour in hospitals is driven by patient demand. METHODS Consultations we...

How Much Stress Is Stressful?

Stress is unavoidable but how much stress is safer and how men and women react to the same type and intensity of stress is a never ending debate. The present study is designed on this basis. The effect of mental stress with and without harassment in age matched males and females (15 each) on the cardiovascular parameters viz systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), mean ar...

Is genetic counseling a stressful event?

PURPOSE The aim of this paper was to investigate whether cancer genetic counseling could be considered as a stressful event and associated with more anxiety and/or depression compared to other cancer-related events for instance attending mammography screening or receiving a cancer diagnosis. METHODS A total of 4911 individuals from three Scandinavian countries were included in the study. Data...

What is the potential for overdiagnosis of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia?

Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is caused by platelet-activating antibodies that recognize platelet factor 4//heparin (PF4/H) complexes. According to the "iceberg model," only a subset of anti-PF4/heparin antibodies of IgG class evincing strong platelet-activating properties cause clinical HIT. Since many centers rely predominantly on an anti-PF4/polyanion enzyme-immunoassay (EIA) to dia...