title: Over-diagnosis and over-treatment in Ophthalmology: A review of the literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine if the pernicious effects of over-diagnosis and over-treatment have been studied in the most common ocular diseases.
  
  
  METHODS
  Bibliographic search conducted in PubMed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The search algorithm used retrieved 29 articles related with the topic. Most of them address the issue tangentially. Only 4 of them address the problem directly. One of them focuses on the problem of over-diagnosis and over-treatment in idiopathic intracranial hypertension. The remaining 3 focus on the problem of over-diagnosis and over-treatment in glaucoma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The ophthalmology community has thought very little about the detrimental effects of over-diagnosis and over-treatment.
authors.affiliation: Sección de Glaucoma y Neuro-oftalmología, Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario del Henares, Coslada, Madrid, España; Grado de Medicina, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, España. Electronic address: juliogmm@yahoo.es.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: González-Martín-Moro
authors.affiliation: Grado de Medicina, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, España; Sección de Retina, Servicio de Oftalmología, Hospital Universitario del Henares, Coslada, Madrid, Espana.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zarallo-Gallardo
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D000069342:Medical Overuse / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009026:Mortality; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000379:methods*; D039781:PubMed
keywords: Chronic glaucoma; Degeneraciones retinianas; Glaucoma crónico; Hipertensión intracraneal benigna; Idiopathic intracranial hypertension; Keratoconus; Overdiagnosis; Overtreatment; Queratocono; Retinal degeneration; Sobrediagnóstico; Sobretratamiento