Expanding the measurement of overdiagnosis in the context of disease precursors and risk factors

Guylene Theriault¹, Donna Reynolds^{2

3}, Jennifer J Pillay⁴, Heather Limburg⁵, Roland Grad⁶, Michelle Gates⁴, Frantz-Daniel Lafortune^{6

7}, Pascale Breault^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada guylene.theriault@mcgill.ca.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁵ Global Health and Guidelines Division, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁷ Department of Family Medicine, Universite Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
⁸ Department of Family Medicine, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Guylene Theriault et al. BMJ Evid Based Med. 2023.

. 2023 Nov 22;28(6):364-368.

doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2022-112117.

Guylene Theriault¹, Donna Reynolds^{2

3}, Jennifer J Pillay⁴, Heather Limburg⁵, Roland Grad⁶, Michelle Gates⁴, Frantz-Daniel Lafortune^{6

7}, Pascale Breault^{7

8}

¹ Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada guylene.theriault@mcgill.ca.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁵ Global Health and Guidelines Division, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁷ Department of Family Medicine, Universite Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada.
⁸ Department of Family Medicine, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

No abstract available

Keywords: PREVENTIVE MEDICINE.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.