overimaging

noun1

1. •
   Excessive imaging: that which is beyond what is properly indicated in the situation.

   • Any efforts to reduce overimaging must find ways of addressing the underlying incentives behind defensive medicine.
   • It is not always easy to say objectively whether CT or MRI constitutes overimaging in any specific case; sometimes the decision on whether to obtain such imaging is a matter of managing risk levels, as the risk of missing something diagnostically is not worth taking in a certain situation.