过度医疗是指医疗机构或医务人员违背临床医学规范和伦理准则,不能为患者真正提高诊治价值,只是徒增医疗资源耗费的诊治行为。过度医疗包括过度检查、过度治疗(包括药物治疗、手术治疗和介入治疗等)和过度护理。由于临床医学非常复杂,过度医疗非常难以界定。一般来说,对过度医疗判定的基本准则是:对患者的诊疗总体上是趋好还是伤害。在治疗中,要看医生的目的何在,治疗是否减轻了患者的痛苦,是否能延长患者的寿命。另外有两个附加条件是:患者的经济 Excessive medical treatment refers to medical institutions or medical personnel in violation of clinical norms and ethical guidelines, can not really improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with value, but only by medical resources spent on diagnosis and treatment behavior. Excessive medical treatment includes over-examination, over-treatment (including medical treatment, surgical treatment and interventional treatment, etc.) and over-care. Due to the complexity of clinical medicine, over-medical care is very difficult to define. In general, the basic criterion for over-medical judgment is whether the treatment of a patient as a whole is getting better or harder. In treatment, depends on the purpose of the doctor, treatment is to alleviate the suffering of patients, whether to extend the life of patients. There are two additional conditions: the patient’s economy