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Report: Worst Hospitals for Unnecessary Procedures


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In what was called a first-of-its-kind list, the Lown Institute on Tuesday released the names of the worst 50 and best 50 hospitals ranked by how frequently their patients had any of 12 procedures largely regarded as unnecessary.
Lown president Vikas Saini, MD, said for the hospitals with the most overuse, it appears there is a culture. The evidence that these procedures are not useful hasn t penetrated or is being ignored.
For example, Saini said, for someone who is having a heart attack, a coronary stent is perfectly reasonable. But if someone has very stable angina that they ve had for months and months and it s not changing, a coronary stent is unnecessary. Full stop. ....

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