Diagnosis targets in primary care are misleading, unethical, UK experts say
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Last month, there was public outcry at the news that GPs in England would be paid £55 for each case of dementia diagnosed. Now come targets for six other conditions, including diabetes coronary heart disease, asthma and depression, writes an English GP. "But the data on which they are based are flawed, and the approach incentivises potentially harmful overdiagnosis," he argues.