Description: Pulmonary embolism (PE) can be a severe disease and is difficult to diagnose,
given its nonspecific signs and symptoms. Because of this, testing patients with suspected …

Importance Incidental findings on screening and diagnostic tests are common and may
prompt cascades of testing and treatment that are of uncertain value. No study to date has …

Overtreatment is pervasive in medicine and leads to potential patient harms and excessive
costs in health care. Although evidence-based medicine is often derided as practice by rote …

As healthcare providers cope with pricing pressures and increased accountability for
performance, they should be rededicating themselves to improving the value they deliver to …

Objectives The objective was to determine emergency physician (EP) perceptions regarding
1) the extent to which they order medically unnecessary advanced diagnostic imaging, 2) …

Introduction The objective of this systematic review of the literature is to compare a selection
of currently utilized disposable and reusable laparoscopic medical devices in terms of safety …

Importance Overuse of medical tests and treatments is an increasingly recognized problem
across health systems; best practices for reducing overuse are not clear. Framing the …

Health care prices are opaque, and patients and clinicians are equally in the dark about
them. As Americans enroll in high-deductible health plans at unprecedented rates, the …

For physicians, burnout is the inevitable consequence of the way that medical education is
organised and the subsequent maladaptive behaviours that are reinforced in healthcare …

Background Physicians need to learn and work amidst a plethora of uncertainties, which
may drive burnout. Understanding differences in tolerance of uncertainty is an important …