Overdiagnosis
Full definition of overdiagnosis
Noun
overdiagnosis
(uncountable)- (medicine) To diagnose something too frequently, or based on insufficient evidence
- 2007, January 2, H. Gilbert Welch, Lisa Schwartz And Steven Woloshin, What’s Making Us Sick Is an Epidemic of Diagnoses, While failing to make a diagnosis can result in lawsuits, there are no corresponding penalties for overdiagnosis.