Medical Overuse

Preferred Label : Medical Overuse;

MeSH definition : Excessive or unnecessary utilization of health services by patients or physicians.;

MeSH synonym : Medical Overuses; Overuse, Medical; Overuses, Medical; Overuse, Health Services; Overutilization of Health Services; Health Services Overutilization; Overutilization, Health Services; Health Services Overuse; Health Services Overuses; Overuses, Health Services; Unnecessary Health Care; Health Care, Unnecessary;

DeCS synonym : Overmedicalization; Overmedicalisation;

MeSH hyponym : Medical Preference Misdiagnosis; Overdiagnosis; Overtreatment; Overmedication; Overdiagnoses; Overmedications; Medical Preference Misdiagnoses; Misdiagnoses, Medical Preference; Misdiagnosis, Medical Preference; Preference Misdiagnoses, Medical; Preference Misdiagnosis, Medical; Unwanted Medical Care; Medical Care, Unwanted; Medical Cares, Unwanted; Unwanted Medical Cares; Preference Misdiagnosis; Misdiagnoses, Preference; Misdiagnosis, Preference; Preference Misdiagnoses; Overtreatments;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overmedication;

Details

Origin ID

D000069342;

UMLS CUI

C4042755;

Allowable qualifiers
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- prevention and control [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Drug Abuse [ICNP diagnostic]
- Drug Abuse [ICNP subject]
- Medication overuse (finding) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Overmedicated [NCIt concept]
- Overmedication [MedDRA LLT]
- Overtreated (finding) [SNOMED CT concept]
- overdiagnosis [Q-code]
- overtreatment [Q-code]
Record concept(s)
- Medical Overuse [MeSH concept]
- Medical Preference Misdiagnosis [MeSH concept]
See also
- Quaternary Prevention [MeSH Descriptor]
- diagnostic errors [MeSH Descriptor]
- drug overdose [MeSH Descriptor]
- inappropriate prescribing [MeSH Descriptor]
- polypharmacy [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Finding [UMLS semantic type]

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