How to Use overtreatment in a Sentence

overtreatment

noun
  • The increase in remote work since the pandemic may also be adding to overtreatment.
    — TIME, 20 Dec. 2023
  • That lack of knowledge could be contributing to the overtreatment of their older patients.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Issues of over-diagnosis and overtreatment would have to be addressed.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Even so, other physicians noted overtreatment can be an easy trap to fall into with high-profile patients.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2020
  • McLean emphasizes that the goal is precision, not overtreatment.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 15 June 2026
  • This could also lead to overtreatment, such as surgeries that wouldn't typically fall under standard treatment or care.
    — Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The debate over whether early detection causes overtreatment or saves lives has not been settled, but cancer centers want patients to come back.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Lund is an outlier, an extreme example of a dentist engaging in overtreatment.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
  • Unfortunately, overtreatment is a problem at many area practices.
    — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Sometimes, preventing this damage involves what seems like overtreatment with antibiotics.
    — Dr. Marc Siegel , Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • But the study upends prior results that indicated the test did more harm than good, leading to overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 18 May 2026
  • This has led to overtreatment of men who didn't need biopsies or whose cancers would never have become dangerous and undertreatment of those whose tumors were missed.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • To be sure, given the horrifying consequences of rabies, preventive measures must err on the side of overtreatment.
    — Gustav Cappaert/undark, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Developing tests that better identify patients at risk of dying from prostate cancer can decrease overtreatment.
    — Luisel Ricks-Santi, The Conversation, 20 May 2025
  • Blood clots are increasingly recognized as a source of fatal or disabling complications, but overtreatment could lead to bleeding.
    — Jeremy Olson, Star Tribune, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Hg – due to arm position – leading to overdiagnosis or overtreatment, in the form of a new prescription or dose modification.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Lapin said factors such as overtreatment, fraud, health-care consolidation and administrative overhead raise costs for payers and providers, who then pass those on through higher prices.
    — Annika Kim Constantino,ashley Capoot, CNBC, 22 May 2025
  • But medicine has become a business replete with overdiagnosis and overtreatment—and skyrocketing medical charges.
    — Carolyn Barber, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Previous studies found that the tests prevented 1 death for every 23 men diagnosed, and that resulted in overtreatment.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 17 May 2022
  • There have long been concerns about PSA testing due to overdiagnosis and overtreatment, and doctors still debate the test’s overall value.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And this particular problem of overtreatment, unnecessary treatment, is very poorly studied.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 21 July 2021
  • But the doctors who reviewed the cases noted that aggressive overtreatment is all too common among doctors — especially with patients who do not have the resources to seek a second opinion.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2020
  • Another recent study in King County, Washington, found a similar rate of overtreatment.
    — Gustav Cappaert/undark, Popular Science, 25 Feb. 2021
  • However, cancer screening is complicated, and experts say early detection and overtreatment must be balanced.
    — Rachel Scully, The Hill, 20 May 2025
  • Studies have found that about a quarter of health care spending is wasteful, whether because of overtreatment, overpricing, fraud and abuse, or problems with health care coordination and delivery.
    — Michelle Andrews, Fortune, 16 May 2022
  • In some cases, additional screenings can lead women to be diagnosed and treated for cancers that would never have bothered them, problems known as overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
    — Liz Szabo, NBC News, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Prostate cancer screening with the PSA blood test is no longer recommended for men 70 and older because of the risk of false positives or overtreatment.
    — Mary Jacobs, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • In 2012, however, a government task force indicated that this test can lead to overtreatment of cancers that might have posed little danger to patients and so might have been best left alone.
    — Marc B. Garnick, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The prevailing dental economic model based on fee-for-service creates an environment of dental overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 May 2024
  • Guaranteeing that the benefits outweigh any harm from overdiagnosis, overtreatment, false results and complications.
    — Yair Paska, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2021

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