RT Journal
A1 Redberg RF
T1 DEfining “appropriateness”defining "appropriateness"
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD October 10
VO 171
IS 18
SP 1673
OP 1674
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.467
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.467
AB 
Central to all studies of procedural appropriateness is the definition of “appropriate.” In this study, almost all the acute cases were found to be appropriate because they were acute. Is this science or tautology?