Doctors are performing unnecessary hysterectomies in the United States. How big is this problem, and why does it happen? In this latest edition of “Lown Hospitals Q&A,” Shannon Brownlee and Vikas Saini talk about the prevalence and harm of hysterectomy overuse, and what the Lown Index shows about hysterectomies in US hospitals for Medicare patients.
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