Response to Brodersen et al' s 'Overdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn ' t '

Wendy A Rogers^{1

2}, Yishai Mintzker³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
² Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

Comment

Wendy A Rogers et al. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2018 Jun.

. 2018 Jun;23(3):119.

doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2018-110948. Epub 2018 Mar 29.

Wendy A Rogers^{1

2}, Yishai Mintzker³

¹ Department of Clinical Medicine, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
² Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
³ Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

No abstract available

Keywords: internal medicine; medical ethics.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: WAR is funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (ID FT130100346).

Overdiagnosis: what it is and what it isn't.
Brodersen J, Schwartz LM, Heneghan C, O'Sullivan JW, Aronson JK, Woloshin S. Brodersen J, et al. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2018 Feb;23(1):1-3. doi: 10.1136/ebmed-2017-110886. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2018. PMID: 29367314 No abstract available.