Science news articles about 'unnecessary procedures'

... remained the same at control hospitals. “We saw significant improvements, with a reduction of unnecessary episiotomies and an increase of active management – and most remarkably, these effects were ...

... "Overuse of these devices is a disservice to patients, because it puts them through unnecessary procedures and creates unrealistic expectations for the device." The researchers looked at in-hospital ...

... as chest X-rays, CT scans, ultrasounds, bone scans and blood work. Patients went through too many unnecessary procedures because there was no real consensus on the best way to ...

... A downtown Los Angeles hospital accused of recruiting homeless people and putting them through unnecessary procedures to collect millions in fraudulent Medi-Cal and Medicare ...

... . "Managed-care plans have financial and quality-of-care incentives to prevent overuse of unnecessary procedures and steer their beneficiaries to high-quality providers. Our study shows that in the ...

... a patient will do well. What we don't want is to subject patients to uncomfortable, unnecessary procedures if they will not derive a benefit in terms of quality of life or life prolongation." The ...

... . "We anticipate that next generation tests will also be able to predict the tumor site, which will help physicians direct diagnostic studies and minimize unnecessary procedures," says Dr. Ahlquist.

... it would shift the financial incentives in a way that would encourage providers to eliminate unnecessary procedures and tests, as well as promoting the best quality care to help patients stay healthy ...

... (in which a recognizable step toward an adverse event occurred but the patient was not subjected to the unnecessary procedure). Of the adverse events, 108 (50.9 percent) occurred in an operating room ...