🚩 Free to read through March 30: In a survey-based experiment in
#CORR, Drost et al. found that surgeons are more likely to order a low-yield, low-value test when a patient's symptoms last longer, are more intense, or are very limiting due to pain; not due to a surgeon'sainty.
"Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are much easier to recognize when performed by someone else," writes Alicia R. Jacobson MD in a
#CORRInsights commentary. "It would be interesting if future studies could quantify the impact of low-yield testing in time spent, dollars lost, and/or physical harm... (so) we could use (those) data to support decision-making."
Read the article here:
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Read the commentary here:
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