Talk:Overscreening

Arguments against overscreening

Somewhere I read that overscreening should not be done because it is poor professional practice. I have no citation for this. I put the statement here.

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Poor professional practice Health care providers are supposed to recommend treatment according to medical consensus and medical guidelines derived from evidence-based medicine. When overscreening is done, it is done without medical indication, which is contrary to the intent of providing quality health care.

I cannot verify this; it seems intuitive to me and I read it somewhere but I have no citation. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:57, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

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Portions of this article were copied verbatim from the ledes of other Wikipedia articles, including parts of Prostate cancer screening, Breast cancer screening, and portions of Unnecessary health care. Blue Rasberry (talk) 19:44, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Personal and professional bias

Hello! My name is Lane and I work for a non-profit advocacy organization called Consumer Reports. My organization publishes health information, typically with the encouragement of certain medical specialty societies. I created this article as part of a health education campaign called Choosing Wisely. I have a project page associated with this campaign at WP:Choosing Wisely.

I am undoubtedly personally and professionally biased when I write about overscreening. I am sure that this bias reflects in my creation of this article, and would appreciate anyone who sees problems in this article to inform me so that I can moderate it to align with what reliable sources report. Thanks. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:00, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Sources requested

The article on Screening (medicine) is a bit messy - I have trouble with the definition and there is no described history of the concept. With overscreening, this article, I find the term described often enough but I am unaware of any fundamental or first source which coined the term "overscreening" and defined it. Right now in the article I list five unrelated examples of overscreening, but in reading about these cases, I see none of the literature about them citing any paper for a definition.

I presume that there must be a first paper on the concept somewhere, and I presume also that the concept must be covered in some textbook. The concept of overscreening is discussed enough in literature to establish it, but I think no one ever made the Wikipedia article for the concept until now because others like me must have been unable to find the first articulation of the concept.

Where is the first definition of "overscreening"? How did this term arise? Does anyone have sources? Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:06, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Someone gave me a 1992 source. I added it to the definitions section as follows:

One early use of the term "overscreening" was in 1992 in the context of cervical cancer screening.

Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:34, 2 July 2014 (UTC)