Example sentences for: overdiagnosis

How can you use “overdiagnosis” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If the prostate cancer cases were detected as the result of screening, say with ultrasound, the TPR could be artificially elevated if there were overdiagnosis, as previously discussed.

  • The cover story deplores the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities: LD advocates say that as many as 50 million Americans are learning-disabled; critics say that students claim impairment to extract special treatment from schools (extra tutoring, extra time on tests, etc.).

  • Length-bias and overdiagnosis bias are avoided because the comparison is between randomized groups not between screen-detected and clinically detected cancer cases.

  • Screening at age b in both Scenarios and avoids differential overdiagnosis rates because, if Assumption 1 holds, both scenarios and specify equal probabilities of detecting cancer by age b .

  • One problem is that t catch-up does not occur if there is overdiagnosis.


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