TY  - JOUR
T1  - Overuse of health care: Where are the data?
AU  - Katz MH
Y1  - 2012/01/23
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1253
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 178
EP  - 178
VL  - 172
IS  - 2
N2  - 
What is most striking about this report is how hard the authors searched for data on overuse of health care and how little they found. They reviewed 21 years of the medical literature and evaluated 114 831 publications, yet found only 172 articles that addressed overuse of health care. If we are to improve health care in the United States, we must know as much about overuse of health care as we do about underuse of health care. This article gets us started.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1253
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1253
ER  -