The New Hampshire case involved a conflict between state laws and court decisions requiring manufacturers to design products that are not "unreasonably dangerous" (based on an analysis of whether the potential for harm exceeds the usefulness of a product) and federal laws that restrict the ability of generic companies to take corrective action on their own.
Drug overuse stood for situations in which potential for harm exceeded the possible benefit.
Questions are quickly answered when conclusive evidence of harm has been established for trial participants, or when the potential for harm exceeds an acceptable limit of comfort for an oversight body.
Because the NSABB found that there was significant potential for harm in fully publishing these results and that the harm exceeded the benefits of publication, we therefore recommended that the work not be fully communicated in an open forum.
The WHO/EURO Multicentre Study of Suicide, established in 1989, demonstrated that, for each age group, the female rate of self-harm exceeded that of the males, with the highest rate among females in the 13 24 age group and the highest rate among males in the 12 34 age group.
Overuse —Providing a diagnostic test in circumstances where the potential for harm exceeds the potential for benefit.
Rigid thresholds where harm exceeds the perceived benefits are not exactly known and may vary between subgroups [ 39].
The proposed investigation may also gently confront the issue of treatment overuse, as the HD literature has begun to question the circumstances in which potential for harm may exceed possible benefit [ 17, 43].
For instance, a woman might decide not to participate because she believes the harms of screening exceed the benefits.
Racial/ethnic disparities in receipt of health care are widely documented [ 1, 2], but most research has focused on underuse – patients not receiving needed and appropriate care — without also examining overuse receipt of unneeded or inappropriate care that does not improve health outcomes, whose harms and risks exceed its benefits [ 3– 5].
