It formulates involves contributing to the development, consolidation, recommendations, evaluates the skills of physicians, dentists dissemination and application of knowledge in the field of and pharmacists, and gives advices on professional aspects public health related to the technical and scientific organisation of the health care facility MSSS: Department of Health and Social Services AQESSS: [...] The fact that the number of participants greatly exceeded the organizers’ expectations shows that the topic of Instead of looking for guilty parties, the QMA would rather overdiagnosis touches a nerve for many propose solutions and engage the medical profession to take actions that will benefit the Québec health care This action plan thus aims to continue the discussion and system. [...] We first briefly summarize the [Québec Association of Health Care Facilities], the INSPQ main aspects of the issue and the theoretical model that was [National Institute of Public Health] and the ACMDP retained to guide the discussions at the symposium. [...] The results of the discussions and our analysis of them based on the major themes are presented in the next two sections 8. |. OVERDIAGNOSIS: FINDINGS AND ACTION PLAN What You Told Us Participants at the first Québec Symposium on Overdiagnosis had an opportunity to voice their opinions on the priority factors for each of the four vectors of diagnosis inflation that were part of the theoretical mod [...] When patients to the “patients” vector involves the certainty of patients that a have to spend several hours in a waiting room or wait weeks or procedure or prescription is essential in order to improve their months to get an appointment, they want to solve EVERYTHING state of health at the appointment, and want all the tests and all the prescriptions, because the idea of having to wait so long is