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- noun medicine The failure to
diagnose a condition in a significant proportion of a patients
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Examples
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The CDC report looked at people already in the health-care system, "but there is a big problem with underdiagnosis and undertreatment," he said.
CDC: Half of Americans will suffer from mental health woes 2011
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Well, there probably is some overdiagnosis, but the worse problem is the underdiagnosis.
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The report, Delivering Male, shows how the underdiagnosis of depression in men, the high rate of male suicides and largely unrecognised problems like eating disorders can be more effectively tackled.
Letters: Addressing mental health needs within the community 2011
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Screening tests that strive to limit overdiagnosis—by narrowing the criteria by which patients are classified as positive—often pay the price of increasing underdiagnosis because they miss patients that lie in the gray zone between positive and negative.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The trouble is that overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis are often intrinsically conjoined, locked perpetually on two ends of a seesaw.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Only a test capable of meeting all these criteria—proving mortality benefit in a genuinely randomized setting with an acceptable over- and underdiagnosis rate—can be judged a success.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Prudence, suspicious of overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis, refuses to be screened.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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In cancer, where both overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis come at high costs, finding that exquisite balance is often impossible.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Part of the answer lies also in the old conundrum of over- and underdiagnosis—although with an important twist.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Screening tests thus routinely fail because they cannot even cross this preliminary hurdle—the rate of over- or underdiagnosis is unacceptably high.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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