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Descriptor English: Overtreatment
Descriptor Spanish: Sobretratamiento
Descriptor sobretratamiento
Scope note: Tratamiento curativo o procedimientos preventivos de una enfermedad que se realizan con demasiada frecuencia por SOBREDIAGNÓSTICO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Sobretratamento
Descriptor French: Surtraitement
Entry term(s): Over treatment
Over-treatment
Over-treatments
Overtreatments
Tree number(s): N02.421.380.450.188
N05.300.150.395.450.188
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000088922
Scope note: Remedial treatment or preventive procedures of a disease which is done too frequently or excessively often from OVERDIAGNOSIS.
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PC prevention & control
SN statistics & numerical data
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2022; see MEDICAL OVERUSE 2016-2021
History Note: 2022(2016)
DeCS ID: 59707
Unique ID: D000088922
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2022/01/01
Date of Entry: 2021/07/09
Revision Date: 2021/03/05
Overtreatment - Narrower
Concept UI M000605501
Scope note Remedial treatment or preventive procedures of a disease which is done too frequently or excessively often from OVERDIAGNOSIS.
Preferred term Overtreatment
Entry term(s) Over treatment
Over-treatment
Over-treatments
Overtreatments



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