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Veinticinco mitos en enfermedades infecciosas en atención primaria que se asocian con sobrediagnóstico y sobretratamiento
Overdiagnosis and overprescribing is common in current clinical practice of infectious diseases in primary care. On the basis of studies published in the medical literature we identify my means of a non-systematic review a total of 25 myths associated with the diagnosis and treatment and present the...
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author | Llor, Carles Moragas, Ana Cordoba, Gloria |
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description | Overdiagnosis and overprescribing is common in current clinical practice of infectious diseases in primary care. On the basis of studies published in the medical literature we identify my means of a non-systematic review a total of 25 myths associated with the diagnosis and treatment and present the literature pertaining to each myth. These myths result in extraneous testing (overdiagnosis) and excessive antimicrobial treatment (overtreatment). Most of these myths are ingrained among general practitioners in our country. Not only should these myths be debunked from our clinical practice, but they should also be reversed, and we encourage our readers to critically appraise their practice when it comes down to the misconceptions treated in this manuscript. We attempt to give guidance to clinicians facing these frequent clinical scenarios. |
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spelling | pubmed-68369702019-11-20 Veinticinco mitos en enfermedades infecciosas en atención primaria que se asocian con sobrediagnóstico y sobretratamiento Llor, Carles Moragas, Ana Cordoba, Gloria Aten Primaria Artículos especiales Overdiagnosis and overprescribing is common in current clinical practice of infectious diseases in primary care. On the basis of studies published in the medical literature we identify my means of a non-systematic review a total of 25 myths associated with the diagnosis and treatment and present the literature pertaining to each myth. These myths result in extraneous testing (overdiagnosis) and excessive antimicrobial treatment (overtreatment). Most of these myths are ingrained among general practitioners in our country. Not only should these myths be debunked from our clinical practice, but they should also be reversed, and we encourage our readers to critically appraise their practice when it comes down to the misconceptions treated in this manuscript. We attempt to give guidance to clinicians facing these frequent clinical scenarios. Elsevier 2018-11 2018-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6836970/ /pubmed/30270191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aprim.2018.09.005 Text en © 2018 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Artículos especiales Llor, Carles Moragas, Ana Cordoba, Gloria Veinticinco mitos en enfermedades infecciosas en atención primaria que se asocian con sobrediagnóstico y sobretratamiento |
title | Veinticinco mitos en enfermedades infecciosas en atención primaria que se asocian con sobrediagnóstico y sobretratamiento |
title_full | Veinticinco mitos en enfermedades infecciosas en atención primaria que se asocian con sobrediagnóstico y sobretratamiento |
title_fullStr | Veinticinco mitos en enfermedades infecciosas en atención primaria que se asocian con sobrediagnóstico y sobretratamiento |
title_full_unstemmed | Veinticinco mitos en enfermedades infecciosas en atención primaria que se asocian con sobrediagnóstico y sobretratamiento |
title_short | Veinticinco mitos en enfermedades infecciosas en atención primaria que se asocian con sobrediagnóstico y sobretratamiento |
title_sort | veinticinco mitos en enfermedades infecciosas en atención primaria que se asocian con sobrediagnóstico y sobretratamiento |
topic | Artículos especiales |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6836970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30270191 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aprim.2018.09.005 |
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