Inappropriate medicalisation carries the dangers of unnecessary labelling, poor treatment decisions, economic waste, as well as the costs that result when resources are diverted from treating or preventing more serious disease.
Albeit, their availability might lead to medicalisation which carries the dangers of unnecessary labelling, iatrogenic illness and economic waste.
Overscreening and overdiagnosis for conditions that would never cause symptoms have the potential to lead to unnecessary labelling and overtreatment.
To minimize structural disturbances by unnecessary labeling of site 35, we created a Cys-35-Ser mutant, which allows selective labeling of Cys-84.
Concerns are increasingly being raised about the potential of medicine to harm the healthy. 1 Reports suggest that there is an increase in overscreening and overdiagnosis for conditions that would never cause symptoms, resulting in unnecessary labelling and overtreatment of healthy individuals.
The dangers of using arbitrary cut-off scores has been detailed elsewhere (see Ferguson et al., 2009b; Ruscio et al., 2006) and includes misdiagnosis of cases and non-cases and vice versa, reduced statistical power, unnecessary labelling, and applying incorrect theoretical models.
The consequences of overdiagnosis include unnecessary labeling of people with a lifelong diagnosis as well as unneeded treatments and surveillance that cause physical and psychosocial harm. 1 A patient who is overdiagnosed cannot benefit from the diagnosis or treatment but can only be harmed.
The first two figures in particular have many words, and we think some of the labelled anatomical structures are either unnecessary to label or could be abbreviated to make the figure appear less busy.
WPC was not the officers' title – the prefix is obsolete – yet the unnecessary additional label allowed papers to make subtle sexist inferences about the capability of female officers with headlines like "Why?
Other identified types of waste were motion and unnecessary activities (labelled as 'number 2' in Figure 2).
