Overdiagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: a systematic scoping review

L Kazda, K Bell, R Thomas, K McGeechan… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Reported increases in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnoses
are accompanied by growing debate about the underlying factors. Although overdiagnosis is …

Overdiagnosis of mental disorders in children and adolescents (in developed countries)

EC Merten, JC Cwik, J Margraf, S Schneider - Child and adolescent …, 2017 - Springer
During the past 50 years, health insurance providers and national registers of mental health
regularly report significant increases in the number of mental disorder diagnoses in children …

Preventing overdiagnosis: how to stop harming the healthy

R Moynihan, J Doust, D Henry - Bmj, 2012 - bmj.com
Evidence is mounting that medicine is harming healthy people through ever earlier detection
and ever wider definition of disease. With the announcement of an international conference …

[图书][B] The ADHD explosion: Myths, medication, money, and today's push for performance

SP Hinshaw, RM Scheffler - 2014 - books.google.com
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most controversial and
misunderstood medical conditions today. With skyrocketing rates of diagnosis and …

[HTML][HTML] Attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder and month of school enrollment

TJ Layton, ML Barnett, TR Hicks… - New England Journal of …, 2018 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Younger children in a school grade cohort may be more likely to receive a
diagnosis of attention deficit–hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) than their older peers because …

Integration of an EEG biomarker with a clinician's ADHD evaluation

SM Snyder, TA Rugino, M Hornig… - Brain and behavior, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background This study is the first to evaluate an assessment aid for attention‐
deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) according to both Class‐I evidence standards of …

Overdiagnosis: how our compulsion for diagnosis may be harming children

ER Coon, RA Quinonez, VA Moyer, AR Schroeder - Pediatrics, 2014 - publications.aap.org
Overdiagnosis occurs when a true abnormality is discovered, but detection of that
abnormality does not benefit the patient. It should be distinguished from misdiagnosis, in …

Expanding disease definitions in guidelines and expert panel ties to industry: a cross-sectional study of common conditions in the United States

RN Moynihan, GPE Cooke, JA Doust, L Bero… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Financial ties between health professionals and industry may unduly influence
professional judgments and some researchers have suggested that widening disease …

School starting age and cognitive development

E Dhuey, D Figlio, K Karbownik… - Journal of Policy Analysis …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We present evidence of a positive relationship between school starting age and children's
cognitive development from ages 6 to 18 using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design and …

Variations in the relative age effect with age and sex, and over time—Elite-level data from international soccer world cups

AV Pedersen, TK Aune, T Dalen, H Lorås - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The relative age effect (RAE) is a statistical bias observed across sport contexts and consists
of a systematic skewness in birth date distribution within an annual-age cohort. In soccer …