Unnecessary procedures and surgery in Autoimmune Pancreatitis [PDF]
Digestion, 2015 BACKGROUND/AIMS To identify the number and potential causes of unnecessary diagnostic procedures in a cohort of patients with autoimmune pancreatitis (AIP).
Müllhaupt, Beat +3 more
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Early routine amniotomy: an unnecessary procedure
Research Journal of Health Sciences, 2021 Early routine amniotomy, also known as artificial rupture of the amniotic membrane, is one of the procedures used to induce and accelerate labour before cervical dilation reaches four centimeters. Because of its benefits and risks, there are at least two
Mukamana, D. +5 more
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Plastic Surgery Tourism: Complications, Costs, and Unnecessary Spending?
Aesthetic Surgery Journal Open Forum, 2023 BackgroundThe liability of plastic surgery tourism in patient health and postoperative resource allocation is significant. Procedures completed within the context of medical tourism often lack rigorous quality assurance and provide limited preoperative ...
Danielle Hery +4 more
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Alexandria Journal of Medicine, 2016 Objective: This study aimed to check the sensitivity of multiple newly developed 3T MRI breast sequences using CAD software, in pre-sampling diagnosis of breast cancer, in an attempt to minimize unnecessary invasive sampling or surgical procedures ...
Mahmoud Agha +2 more
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Measuring the frequency and variation of unnecessary care across Canada
BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background Through the Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) campaign, national medical specialty societies have released hundreds of recommendations against health care services that are unnecessary, i.e.
Zachary Bouck +10 more
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Personalised Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: Evaluating Biomarker-based Approaches to Reduce Unnecessary Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Biopsy Procedures [PDF]
European Urology Open ScienceBackground and objective: Efforts made over the last decade for the detection of prostate cancer (PCa) have revolutionised disease diagnostics, and implementation of prebiopsy magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has received widespread acceptance.
Timo F.W. Soeterik +14 more
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Same-Day Computed Tomographic Chest Imaging for Pulmonary Nodule Targeting with Electromagnetic Navigation Bronchoscopy May Decrease Unnecessary Procedures. [PDF]
Ann Am Thorac Soc, 2016 Bronchoscopy is commonly used for the diagnosis of suspicious pulmonary nodules discovered on computed tomographic (CT) imaging of the chest. Procedural CT imaging for bronchoscopy planning is often completed weeks to months before the date of a ...
Semaan RW +7 more
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Low-Value Surgical Procedures in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Scoping Review [PDF]
, 2023 Importance Overuse of surgical procedures is increasing around the world and harms both individuals and health care systems by using resources that could otherwise be allocated to addressing the underuse of effective health care interventions.
Shaikhkhalil, Hosam +15 more
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Infantile Hepatic Hemangioma: Avoiding Unnecessary Invasive Procedures [PDF]
Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition, 2020 Infantile hepatic hemangioma, the most common vascular tumor of the liver in infancy, can occur with acute postnatal liver and congestive heart failure. Nevertheless, its course is often benign, and many children can be diagnosed and treated without surgical intervention.
Lukas Ernst +5 more
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Blood‐based biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease: Future directions for implementation
Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 2023 INTRODUCTION Disease‐modifying therapies (DMTs) for Alzheimer's disease (AD) will increase diagnostic demand. A non‐invasive blood‐based biomarker (BBBM) test for detection of amyloid‐β pathology may reduce diagnostic barriers and facilitate DMT ...
Ivonne Suridjan +9 more
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