Unnecessary Procedures
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Subject Areas on Research
- 'Choosing Wisely' culture among Brazilian cardiologists.
- A Multidisciplinary Housestaff-Led Initiative to Safely Reduce Daily Laboratory Testing.
- ASH evidence-based guidelines: should asymptomatic patients with antiphospholipid antibodies receive primary prophylaxis to prevent thrombosis?
- Aborted infarction: the ultimate myocardial salvage.
- Addition of price transparency to an education and feedback intervention reduces utilization of inpatient echocardiography by resident physicians.
- Adult Patients' Perspectives on the Benefits and Harms of Overused Screening Tests: a Qualitative Study.
- American Society of Clinical Oncology 2013 top five list in oncology.
- An evidence-based approach to patient selection for emergency department thoracotomy: A practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
- Applying the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound recommendations for fine-needle aspiration of thyroid nodules: effect on workup and malignancy detection.
- Biopsy first: Lessons learned from Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) 140503.
- Case report: Neuropathic arthropathy of the hip as a sequela of undiagnosed tertiary syphilis.
- Clinical outcomes of fractional flow reserve by computed tomographic angiography-guided diagnostic strategies vs. usual care in patients with suspected coronary artery disease: the prospective longitudinal trial of FFR(CT): outcome and resource impacts study.
- Cost impact of molecular testing for indeterminate thyroid nodule fine-needle aspiration biopsies.
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of the diagnosis of meniscus tears.
- Deciding why and when to use CT in children: a radiologist's perspective.
- Deimplementation of Routine Chest X-rays in Adult Intensive Care Units.
- Echocardiographic Algorithm for Post-Myocardial Infarction LV Thrombus: A Gatekeeper for Thrombus Evaluation by Delayed Enhancement CMR.
- Effect of Release of the First Pediatric Appropriate Use Criteria on Transthoracic Echocardiogram Ordering Practice.
- Effectiveness of high rate and delayed detection ICD programming by race: A MADIT-RIT substudy.
- Establishing patient-specific criteria for selecting the optimal upper extremity vascular access procedure.
- Estimating the rate of cesarean section by maternal request: anonymous survey of obstetricians in Australia.
- Evaluating Appropriate Use of Pediatric Echocardiograms for Chest Pain in Outpatient Clinics.
- Evaluation of the contralateral inguinal ring in clinically unilateral inguinal hernia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Five-year downstream outcomes following prostate-specific antigen screening in older men.
- For patients with predicted low risk for choledocholithiasis undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy, selective intraoperative cholangiography and postoperative endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is an effective strategy to limit unnecessary procedures.
- Guideline-based decision support has a small, non-sustained effect on transthoracic echocardiography ordering frequency.
- HIV-related renal disease and the utility of empiric therapy: not everyone needs to be biopsied.
- Heroic measures may not always be justified in extensive urethral stricture due to lichen sclerosus (balanitis xerotica obliterans).
- Investigation momentum: the relentless pursuit to resolve uncertainty.
- Is a third-trimester antibody screen in Rh+ women necessary?
- It May Be Time to Abandon Urine Tests for Bladder Cancer.
- Methotrexate Administration to Patients With Presumed Ectopic Pregnancy Leads to Methotrexate Exposure of Intrauterine Pregnancies.
- Neuro-ophthalmology Safer Than MRI?
- Outcomes of Saphenous Vein Graft Intervention With and Without Embolic Protection Device: A Comprehensive Review and Meta-Analysis.
- Overutilization of endoscopic surveillance in nondysplastic Barrett's esophagus: a multicenter study.
- Patient selection for diagnostic coronary angiography and hospital-level percutaneous coronary intervention appropriateness: insights from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry.
- Patterns of use and cost for inappropriate radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid cancer in the United States: use and misuse.
- Pediatric CT: practical approach to diminish the radiation dose.
- Physician Non-adherence to Colonoscopy Interval Guidelines in the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System.
- Pitfalls in avoiding operation for autoimmune pancreatitis.
- Post-operative heparin may not be required for transitioning patients with a HeartMate II left ventricular assist system to long-term warfarin therapy.
- Post-procedure heparin: boon or burden?
- Prophylactic appendectomy: unnecessary in children with incidental appendicoliths detected by computed tomographic scan.
- Prostate-specific antigen velocity based risk-adapted discontinuation of prostate cancer screening in elderly men.
- Reply: To PMID 24974958.
- Retrospective Chart Review of the Triage Algorithm for Psychiatric Screening (TAPS) for Patients Who Present to Emergency Departments With Psychiatric Chief Complaints.
- Routine placement of ureteral stents is unnecessary after ureteroscopy for urinary calculi.
- Self-regulation in the era of big data: appropriate use of appropriate use criteria.
- Staging chest computed tomography and positron emission tomography in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma: utility or futility?
- The appropriate and justified use of medical radiation in cardiovascular imaging: a position document of the ESC Associations of Cardiovascular Imaging, Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions and Electrophysiology.
- The better colectomy project: association of evidence-based best-practice adherence rates to outcomes in colorectal surgery.
- The high frequency of healthcare use in patients one year prior to a sarcoidosis diagnosis.
- To monitor or not to monitor.
- Toward individualized post-electroconvulsive therapy care: piloting the Symptom-Titrated, Algorithm-Based Longitudinal ECT (STABLE) intervention.
- Unilateral vesicoureteral reflux: does endoscopic injection based on the cystoscopic appearance of the ureteral orifice decrease the incidence of de-novo contralateral reflux?
- Use of a validated algorithm to judge the appropriateness of total knee arthroplasty in the United States: a multicenter longitudinal cohort study.
- Using surgical appropriateness criteria to examine outcomes of total knee arthroplasty in a United States sample.
- Value of FDG-PET scanning in management of lung cancer.
- Why and when to use CT in children: perspective of a pediatric emergency medicine physician.
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Keywords of People
- Routh, Jonathan Charles, Paul H. Sherman, M.D. Distinguished Associate Professor of Surgery, Pediatrics