ArticlePatient safety in surgery2017
Why do surgeons continue to perform unnecessary surgery?
Article in Patient safety in surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.
- Strategies for High-Quality Spine Surgery in Resource-Limited Settings: The Five-P Framework for Equitable Surgical Delivery.Global spine journal · 2026Review
- Overuse in surgery by deviation from the "Choosing Wisely" campaign recommendations: a surrogate of unnecessary surgery and low-value care.Patient safety in surgery · 2026Article
- Is prophylactic fundoplication necessary? Laparoscopic fundoplication after gastrostomy vs non-gastrostomy patients.Pediatric surgery international · 2025Article
- Most Mason Type 2 Radial Head Fractures Can Be Managed Nonoperatively.Clinics in orthopedic surgery · 2025Article
- Postoperative infection, wrong-site surgery, and patient death after elective low-value orthopedic surgery: the epitome of preventable surgical complications.Patient safety in surgery · 2025Article
- Unnecessary spine surgery: can we solve this ongoing conundrum?Frontiers in surgery · 2023Article
- Shared decision making: Does a decision aid support patients with an atypical cartilaginous tumor in making a decision about treatment.PEC innovation · 2022Article
- Can Physical Therapy Deliver Clinically Meaningful Improvements in Pain and Function Through a Mobile App? An Observational Retrospective Study.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2022Article
- Unnecessary Cervical Discectomy - A simple test to differentiate between Cervical and Shoulder Pathology: A Case Report.Journal of orthopaedic case reports · 2022Article
- Do choosing wisely recommendations about low-value care target income-generating treatments provided by members? A content analysis of 1293 recommendations.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Medicolegal Sidebar: Unnecessary Medical Care and Physician Liability.Clinical orthopaedics and related research · 2018Article
- Surgeon Practice Patterns of Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy for Degenerative Disease in the United States: A Measure of Low-Value Care.JAMA surgery · 2018Article
- What happened to "Patient first" and "Do no harm" medical principles?Surgical neurology international · 2018Article
- The 10Patient safety in surgery · 2017Article
- Holistic healing: Navigating perspectives and prerogatives in treating temporomandibular joint disorders.National journal of maxillofacial surgeryArticle
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
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Abstract
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Registered trials
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