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Majority of clinicians overestimate harms, benefits of treatment
Most resident and attending internal medicine physicians overestimated both the benefits and harms of common medical tests and treatments, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.These included the prevention of myocardial infarction or stroke with daily aspirin, frequency of biopsy among patients receiving screening mammograms, prevention of hip fracture in patients with osteoporosis using alendronate and prevention of mortality in patients with acute peptic ulcer bleeding using proton pump inhibitors, Mona Krouss, MD, from the University of Maryland Medical Center, and colleagues reported.