1. diagnosed more frequently or in more cases than is medically justified or accurate
Usage: medical/healthcare context

1. past tense and past participle of overdiagnose; to diagnose a condition in a patient when the diagnosis is not warranted or accurate
Usage: medical/healthcare context

Examples

• Attention deficit disorder has been overdiagnosed in children over the past two decades.
• The condition was overdiagnosed because doctors relied too heavily on screening tests.
• Many patients were overdiagnosed with the disease due to improved imaging technology.
• Researchers found that the syndrome had been significantly overdiagnosed in the study population.
• The tendency to overdiagnose rare conditions can lead to unnecessary treatment.
• Doctors were cautioned against overdiagnosing anxiety in adolescents.