overdiagnoseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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overdiagnose (third-person singular simple present overdiagnoses, present participle overdiagnosing, simple past and past participle overdiagnosed)

1. (medicine) To diagnose something more often than it actually occurs.

   Antonym: underdiagnose

   Health experts deny claims that they overdiagnose mental health conditions.

   • 2009 January 11, Jeanne Dorin Mcdowell, “The Four (at Least) Faces of Tara”, in New York Times‎:

     Dissociative identity disorder is a contentious diagnosis: some professionals say the disorder is overdiagnosed; others say it doesn't even exist.

2. (medicine) To diagnose as a clinical case what is truly a subclinical case.

   Her GP incorrectly referred her to a pulmonologist, overdiagnosing what was clearly a case of subclinical, mild allergy.

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