Inpatient Overtreatment

Overtreatment of enterococcal bacteriuria.

BACKGROUND The purposes of this study were to investigate the clinical outcomes of enterococcal bacteriuria and to determine whether current management is adherent to Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines. METHODS We conducted a retrospective medical record review of patients from 2 academic teaching hospitals for 3 months (September 1 through November 30, 2009). Patients were cla...

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment

claim that our critique of the randomized screening trials has little merit; that there is no reason to believe that the Canadian study was of better quality than the New York Health Insurance Plan (HIP) study or the Two-County study; and that the prior consensus on mammography was correct. However, their review suffers from erroneous assumptions and biased statistical analyses, and their quota...

Patient experience of overtreatment.

Overtreatment of cruciate ligament injuries

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453674.2010.525192 Once an unvalidated surgical procedure has become common, widely known in the general population, and popular among “celebrities”, it ...

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment over time.

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are often thought of as relatively recent phenomena, influenced by a contemporary combination of technology, specialization, payment models, marketing, and supply-related demand. Yet a quick glance at the historical record reveals that physicians and medical manufacturers have been accused of iatrogenic excess for centuries, if not millennia. Medicine has long ha...