Study Overtreatment in the United States. Citation Text: Lyu H, Xu T, Brotman D, et al. Overtreatment in the United States. PLoS One. 2017;12(9):e0181970. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181970. Copy Citation Format: DOIGoogle ScholarPubMedBibTeXEndNote X3 XMLEndNote 7 XMLEndnote taggedPubMedIdRIS Download Citation Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL September 27, 2017 Lyu H, Xu T, Brotman D, et al. PLoS One. 2017;12(9):e0181970. View more articles from the same authors. Overuse of medical care can lead to patient harm. In this survey study, physicians were queried about the overuse of health care as well as contributing factors and solutions. Fear of malpractice was cited as a major reason for overtreatment. PubMed citation Free full text Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Lyu H, Xu T, Brotman D, et al. Overtreatment in the United States. PLoS One. 2017;12(9):e0181970. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181970. Copy Citation Format: DOIGoogle ScholarPubMedBibTeXEndNote X3 XMLEndNote 7 XMLEndnote taggedPubMedIdRIS Download Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Medical harm: patient perceptions and follow-up actions. December 10, 2014 Underreporting of robotic surgery complications. September 18, 2013 Sleep deprivation and starvation in hospitalised patients: how medical care can harm patients. October 21, 2015 Clinical communities at Johns Hopkins Medicine: an emerging approach to quality improvement. September 2, 2015 Assessment of overuse of medical tests and treatments at US hospitals using Medicare claims. May 19, 2021 Adverse events and hospital-acquired conditions associated with potential low-value care in Medicare beneficiaries. August 11, 2021 Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections. July 11, 2012 Association of safety culture with surgical site infection outcomes. January 13, 2016 Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among frontline health care personnel in a multistate hospital network--13 academic medical centers, April-June 2020. September 23, 2020 Optimizing Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting. October 19, 2022 Association between elements of electronic health record systems and the weekend effect in urgent general surgery. April 12, 2017 Preventing home medication administration errors. March 14, 2022 A practical tool to learn from defects in patient care. February 8, 2006 Evidence review conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: focus on anesthesiology for colorectal surgery. May 9, 2018 Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the US. May 11, 2016 Operating room briefings. July 5, 2006 Improving safety and quality of care with enhanced teamwork through operating room briefings. July 23, 2014 Operating room briefings and wrong-site surgery. February 7, 2007 Developing indicators of inpatient adverse drug events through nonlinear analysis using administrative data. October 24, 2007 Evaluation and accurate diagnoses of pediatric diseases using artificial intelligence. February 27, 2019 Creating high reliability in health care organizations. December 20, 2006 Assessment of physician sleep and wellness, burnout, and clinically significant medical errors. January 13, 2021 Families as partners in hospital error and adverse event surveillance. March 8, 2017 Implementation of the I-PASS handoff program in diverse clinical environments: a multicenter prospective effectiveness implementation study. November 16, 2022 A model for the departmental quality management infrastructure within an academic health system. September 28, 2016 Effects on resident work hours, sleep duration and work experience in a Randomized Order Safety Trial Evaluating Resident-physician Schedules (ROSTERS). June 26, 2019 Why do hospital prescribers continue antibiotics when it is safe to stop? Results of a choice experiment survey. September 2, 2020 Statewide collaborative to reduce surgical site infections: results of the Hawaii Surgical Unit-Based Safety Program. June 20, 2018 Operating room briefings: working on the same page. June 14, 2006 Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder. May 17, 2006 Surgical specimen identification errors: a new measure of quality in surgical care. April 11, 2007 Effect of a pediatric early warning system on all-cause mortality in hospitalized pediatric patients. March 7, 2018 25-Year summary of US malpractice claims for diagnostic errors 1986–2010: an analysis from the National Practitioner Data Bank. May 1, 2013 Impact of preoperative briefings on operating room delays. November 26, 2008 Achieving the National Quality Forum's "Never Events": prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient operations. April 25, 2007 Better understanding the downsides of low value healthcare could reduce harm. April 21, 2021 Complexity and challenges of the clinical diagnosis and management of Long COVID. November 30, 2022 Identifying potential predictors of a safe attending physician workload: a survey of hospitalists. October 30, 2013 Diagnostic errors in primary care pediatrics: Project RedDE. November 29, 2017 Primary care pediatricians' interest in diagnostic error reduction. July 20, 2016 The design and conduct of Project RedDE: a cluster-randomized trial to reduce diagnostic errors in pediatric primary care. May 15, 2019 Developing perioperative Covid-19 testing protocols to restore surgical services. July 22, 2020 Interventions for postsurgical opioid prescribing: a systematic review. September 19, 2018 Ottawa Hospital Patient Safety Study: incidence and timing of adverse events in patients admitted to a Canadian teaching hospital. March 6, 2005 Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units. August 10, 2011 Components of hospital perioperative infrastructure can overcome the weekend effect in urgent general surgery procedures. November 4, 2015 Major congenital malformations after first-trimester exposure to ACE inhibitors. June 21, 2006 Errare humanum est: frequency of laterality errors in radiology reports. June 10, 2009 International evaluation of an AI system for breast cancer screening. January 29, 2020 Developing process-support tools for patient safety: finding the balance between validity and feasibility. October 8, 2008 Implementation of a specialized pharmacy team to monitor high-risk medications during discharge. January 30, 2013 Improving handoffs in the emergency department. October 28, 2009 Surfacing safety hazards using standardized operating room briefings and debriefings at a large regional medical center. April 4, 2012 Catastrophic medical malpractice payouts in the United States. September 10, 2014 Intensive care unit safety incidents for medical versus surgical patients: a prospective multicenter study. October 3, 2007 Patient safety in surgery. May 10, 2006 A system factors analysis of "line, tube, and drain" incidents in the intensive care unit. August 24, 2005 The Threats to Australian Patient Safety (TAPS) study: incidence of reported errors in general practice. August 2, 2006 Impact of attending physician workload on patient care: a survey of hospitalists. February 6, 2013 A randomized trial of a multifactorial strategy to prevent serious fall injuries. July 29, 2020 Impact of duty hours restrictions on quality of care and clinical outcomes. November 21, 2007 The effect of contact precautions on frequency of hospital adverse events. December 9, 2015 Patient safety in the cardiac operating room: human factors and teamwork: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. August 21, 2013 Pictograms, units and dosing tools, and parent medication errors: a randomized study. July 19, 2017 Improving prescription drug warnings to promote patient comprehension. January 20, 2010 Variations in surgical outcomes associated with hospital compliance with safety practices. February 8, 2012 Surgical never events in the United States. January 9, 2013 Needlestick injuries among surgeons in training. July 4, 2007 Patient-assisted incident reporting: including the patient in patient safety. June 1, 2011 Using a network organisational architecture to support the development of Learning Healthcare Systems. February 21, 2018 Implementation of peer messengers to deliver feedback: an observational study to promote professionalism in nursing. January 18, 2023 Burnout in the nursing home health care aide: a systematic review. August 31, 2016 Helping patients simplify and safely use complex prescription regimens. March 16, 2011 Improving health care quality and patient safety through peer-to-peer assessment: demonstration project in two academic medical centers. November 9, 2016 Paediatric family activated rapid response interventions; qualitative systematic review. January 18, 2023 Documenting the indication for antimicrobial prescribing: a scoping review. November 2, 2022 Clinical clerkship students' perceptions of (un)safe transitions for every patient. May 14, 2014 A human factors curriculum for surgical clerkship students. January 5, 2011 Design and evaluation of simulation scenarios for a program introducing patient safety, teamwork, safety leadership, and simulation to healthcare leaders and managers. August 31, 2011 Patient safety after implementation of a coproduced family centered communication programme: multicenter before and after intervention study. December 19, 2018 Quality framework for remote antenatal care: qualitative study with women, healthcare professionals and system-level stakeholders. May 8, 2024 Impact of online education on intern behaviour around Joint Commission national patient safety goals: a randomised trial. June 27, 2012 Teaching internal medicine residents quality improvement and patient safety: a lean thinking approach. April 28, 2010 Mortality risks associated with emergency admissions during weekends and public holidays: an analysis of electronic health records. June 21, 2017 E-prescribing and medication safety in community settings: a rapid scoping review. January 24, 2024 Critical incident stress management (CISM) in complex systems: cultural adaptation and safety impacts in healthcare. October 1, 2014 Changes in medical errors after implementation of a handoff program. November 12, 2014 Physician and nurse well-being and preferred interventions to address burnout in hospital practice: factors associated with turnover, outcomes, and patient safety. July 19, 2023 Pilot testing of a model for insurer-driven, large-scale multicenter simulation training for operating room teams. December 11, 2013 Simulation in the executive suite: lessons learned for building patient safety leadership. January 6, 2016 Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update. June 22, 2022 Vital signs: epidemiology of sepsis: prevalence of health care factors and opportunities for prevention. September 21, 2016 Preventing critical failure. Can routinely collected data be repurposed to predict avoidable patient harm? A quantitative descriptive study. January 29, 2020 Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically ill children with culture rates, antibiotic use, and patient outcomes: results of the Bright STAR Collaborative. May 18, 2022 Extended work shifts and neurobehavioral performance in resident-physicians. March 10, 2021 Communicating certainty in pathology reports: interpretation differences among staff pathologists, clinicians, and residents in a multicenter study. December 22, 2021 The impact of racism on child and adolescent health. July 1, 2019 A trigger tool to detect harm in pediatric inpatient settings. June 3, 2015 Recommendations to improve the usability of drug–drug interaction clinical decision support alerts. November 25, 2015 Incidence and trends of sepsis in US hospitals using clinical vs claims data, 2009--2014. September 27, 2017 View More Related Resources Annual Perspective Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality April 26, 2023 Determination of unnecessary blood transfusion by comprehensive 15-hospital record review. January 25, 2023 Frailty, gaps in care coordination, and preventable adverse events. July 6, 2022 Drug-related problems and polypharmacy in nursing home residents: a cross-sectional study. May 4, 2022 Drive to Deprescribe. June 23, 2021 Nursing home residents with dementia: association between place of death and patient safety culture. January 20, 2021 Impact of a pharmacist-administered deprescribing intervention on nursing home residents: a randomized controlled trial. July 1, 2020 Measuring hospital-acquired complications associated with low-value care. March 6, 2019 2018 update on pediatric medical overuse: a review. February 27, 2019 Appropriateness of outpatient antibiotic prescribing among privately insured US patients: ICD-10-CM based cross sectional study. February 6, 2019 Development of a conceptual map of negative consequences for patients of overuse of medical tests and treatments. September 19, 2018 Characteristics of healthcare organisations struggling to improve quality: results from a systematic review of qualitative studies. September 5, 2018 Trends in opioid use in commercially insured and Medicare Advantage populations in 2007–16: retrospective cohort study. August 29, 2018 Measurement of harms in community care: a qualitative study of use of the NHS Safety Thermometer. August 1, 2018 A multi-hospital before–after observational study using a point-prevalence approach with an infusion safety intervention bundle to reduce intravenous medication administration errors. June 27, 2018 Association of opioid-related adverse drug events with clinical and cost outcomes among surgical patients in a large integrated health care delivery system. June 20, 2018 Patterns of potential opioid misuse and subsequent adverse outcomes in Medicare, 2008 to 2012. June 6, 2018 Disruptive physician behavior: the importance of recognition and intervention and its impact on patient safety. May 16, 2018 Serious incidents after death: content analysis of incidents reported to a national database. May 16, 2018 Overdiagnosis and overtreatment as a quality problem: insights from healthcare improvement research. May 9, 2018 Implementation of a patient safety program at a tertiary health system: a longitudinal analysis of interventions and serious safety events. May 9, 2018 A framework for operationalizing risk: a practical approach to patient safety. May 2, 2018 Latent risk assessment tool for health care leaders. April 25, 2018 Attitudes and practices related to clinical alarms: a follow-up survey. April 18, 2018 Multisource evaluation of surgeon behavior is associated with malpractice claims. April 11, 2018 Diagnostic performance dashboards: tracking diagnostic errors using big data. April 4, 2018 2017 update on pediatric medical overuse: a review. April 4, 2018 The other opioid crisis: hospital shortages lead to patient pain, medical errors. March 28, 2018 Adverse Drug Events in U.S. Hospitals, 2010 Versus 2014. March 14, 2018 Prevalence and Economic Burden of Medication Errors in the NHS England. March 14, 2018 View More See More About The Topic Hospitals Facility and Group Administrators Medicine Overtreatment Active Errors View More
Sleep deprivation and starvation in hospitalised patients: how medical care can harm patients. October 21, 2015
Clinical communities at Johns Hopkins Medicine: an emerging approach to quality improvement. September 2, 2015
Assessment of overuse of medical tests and treatments at US hospitals using Medicare claims. May 19, 2021
Adverse events and hospital-acquired conditions associated with potential low-value care in Medicare beneficiaries. August 11, 2021
Implementation of a surgical comprehensive unit-based safety program to reduce surgical site infections. July 11, 2012
Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among frontline health care personnel in a multistate hospital network--13 academic medical centers, April-June 2020. September 23, 2020
Association between elements of electronic health record systems and the weekend effect in urgent general surgery. April 12, 2017
Evidence review conducted for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Safety Program for Improving Surgical Care and Recovery: focus on anesthesiology for colorectal surgery. May 9, 2018
Improving safety and quality of care with enhanced teamwork through operating room briefings. July 23, 2014
Developing indicators of inpatient adverse drug events through nonlinear analysis using administrative data. October 24, 2007
Evaluation and accurate diagnoses of pediatric diseases using artificial intelligence. February 27, 2019
Assessment of physician sleep and wellness, burnout, and clinically significant medical errors. January 13, 2021
Implementation of the I-PASS handoff program in diverse clinical environments: a multicenter prospective effectiveness implementation study. November 16, 2022
A model for the departmental quality management infrastructure within an academic health system. September 28, 2016
Effects on resident work hours, sleep duration and work experience in a Randomized Order Safety Trial Evaluating Resident-physician Schedules (ROSTERS). June 26, 2019
Why do hospital prescribers continue antibiotics when it is safe to stop? Results of a choice experiment survey. September 2, 2020
Statewide collaborative to reduce surgical site infections: results of the Hawaii Surgical Unit-Based Safety Program. June 20, 2018
Operating room teamwork among physicians and nurses: teamwork in the eye of the beholder. May 17, 2006
Effect of a pediatric early warning system on all-cause mortality in hospitalized pediatric patients. March 7, 2018
25-Year summary of US malpractice claims for diagnostic errors 1986–2010: an analysis from the National Practitioner Data Bank. May 1, 2013
Achieving the National Quality Forum's "Never Events": prevention of wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong patient operations. April 25, 2007
Identifying potential predictors of a safe attending physician workload: a survey of hospitalists. October 30, 2013
The design and conduct of Project RedDE: a cluster-randomized trial to reduce diagnostic errors in pediatric primary care. May 15, 2019
Ottawa Hospital Patient Safety Study: incidence and timing of adverse events in patients admitted to a Canadian teaching hospital. March 6, 2005
Evaluating efforts to optimize TeamSTEPPS implementation in surgical and pediatric intensive care units. August 10, 2011
Components of hospital perioperative infrastructure can overcome the weekend effect in urgent general surgery procedures. November 4, 2015
Developing process-support tools for patient safety: finding the balance between validity and feasibility. October 8, 2008
Implementation of a specialized pharmacy team to monitor high-risk medications during discharge. January 30, 2013
Surfacing safety hazards using standardized operating room briefings and debriefings at a large regional medical center. April 4, 2012
Intensive care unit safety incidents for medical versus surgical patients: a prospective multicenter study. October 3, 2007
A system factors analysis of "line, tube, and drain" incidents in the intensive care unit. August 24, 2005
The Threats to Australian Patient Safety (TAPS) study: incidence of reported errors in general practice. August 2, 2006
Patient safety in the cardiac operating room: human factors and teamwork: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association. August 21, 2013
Variations in surgical outcomes associated with hospital compliance with safety practices. February 8, 2012
Using a network organisational architecture to support the development of Learning Healthcare Systems. February 21, 2018
Implementation of peer messengers to deliver feedback: an observational study to promote professionalism in nursing. January 18, 2023
Improving health care quality and patient safety through peer-to-peer assessment: demonstration project in two academic medical centers. November 9, 2016
Paediatric family activated rapid response interventions; qualitative systematic review. January 18, 2023
Design and evaluation of simulation scenarios for a program introducing patient safety, teamwork, safety leadership, and simulation to healthcare leaders and managers. August 31, 2011
Patient safety after implementation of a coproduced family centered communication programme: multicenter before and after intervention study. December 19, 2018
Quality framework for remote antenatal care: qualitative study with women, healthcare professionals and system-level stakeholders. May 8, 2024
Impact of online education on intern behaviour around Joint Commission national patient safety goals: a randomised trial. June 27, 2012
Teaching internal medicine residents quality improvement and patient safety: a lean thinking approach. April 28, 2010
Mortality risks associated with emergency admissions during weekends and public holidays: an analysis of electronic health records. June 21, 2017
Critical incident stress management (CISM) in complex systems: cultural adaptation and safety impacts in healthcare. October 1, 2014
Physician and nurse well-being and preferred interventions to address burnout in hospital practice: factors associated with turnover, outcomes, and patient safety. July 19, 2023
Pilot testing of a model for insurer-driven, large-scale multicenter simulation training for operating room teams. December 11, 2013
Simulation in the executive suite: lessons learned for building patient safety leadership. January 6, 2016
Strategies to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update. June 22, 2022
Vital signs: epidemiology of sepsis: prevalence of health care factors and opportunities for prevention. September 21, 2016
Preventing critical failure. Can routinely collected data be repurposed to predict avoidable patient harm? A quantitative descriptive study. January 29, 2020
Association of diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in critically ill children with culture rates, antibiotic use, and patient outcomes: results of the Bright STAR Collaborative. May 18, 2022
Communicating certainty in pathology reports: interpretation differences among staff pathologists, clinicians, and residents in a multicenter study. December 22, 2021
Recommendations to improve the usability of drug–drug interaction clinical decision support alerts. November 25, 2015
Incidence and trends of sepsis in US hospitals using clinical vs claims data, 2009--2014. September 27, 2017
Determination of unnecessary blood transfusion by comprehensive 15-hospital record review. January 25, 2023
Drug-related problems and polypharmacy in nursing home residents: a cross-sectional study. May 4, 2022
Nursing home residents with dementia: association between place of death and patient safety culture. January 20, 2021
Impact of a pharmacist-administered deprescribing intervention on nursing home residents: a randomized controlled trial. July 1, 2020
Appropriateness of outpatient antibiotic prescribing among privately insured US patients: ICD-10-CM based cross sectional study. February 6, 2019
Development of a conceptual map of negative consequences for patients of overuse of medical tests and treatments. September 19, 2018
Characteristics of healthcare organisations struggling to improve quality: results from a systematic review of qualitative studies. September 5, 2018
Trends in opioid use in commercially insured and Medicare Advantage populations in 2007–16: retrospective cohort study. August 29, 2018
Measurement of harms in community care: a qualitative study of use of the NHS Safety Thermometer. August 1, 2018
A multi-hospital before–after observational study using a point-prevalence approach with an infusion safety intervention bundle to reduce intravenous medication administration errors. June 27, 2018
Association of opioid-related adverse drug events with clinical and cost outcomes among surgical patients in a large integrated health care delivery system. June 20, 2018
Patterns of potential opioid misuse and subsequent adverse outcomes in Medicare, 2008 to 2012. June 6, 2018
Disruptive physician behavior: the importance of recognition and intervention and its impact on patient safety. May 16, 2018
Serious incidents after death: content analysis of incidents reported to a national database. May 16, 2018
Overdiagnosis and overtreatment as a quality problem: insights from healthcare improvement research. May 9, 2018
Implementation of a patient safety program at a tertiary health system: a longitudinal analysis of interventions and serious safety events. May 9, 2018