How Often do Medical Specialties Question the Practices that They Perform? An Empirical, Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Published Literature

• Ngā kaituhi matua: Alyson Haslam PhD (Author), Kerrington Powell BS (Author), Vinay Prasad MD, MPH (Author)
• Hōputu: Pukapuka
• I whakaputaina: SAGE Publishing, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Ngā marau: article
• Urunga tuihono: Connect to this object online.

An aspect of overuse is who decides which practices are evaluated for overuse and which of the studies on overuse are published in the medical literature. We sought to examine the frequency with which studies in medical journals questioned an established practice. As a secondary objective, we sought...