Hysterectomies Being Performed
Needlessly in 70% of Cases
This shocking revelation comes by way of Reuters Health News Feb. 14,
2000 issue. The article reports on a recent study published in the
February issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology and done at the University
of California in LA. In this study researchers looked at nearly 500 women
who had hysterectomies for reasons other than emergency or cancer. Of
these, the researchers reported that about 70% of them were judged to be
inappropriate.
Some of the reasons given for judging them inappropriate was because
many of the patients did not have an adequate evaluation before the
surgery to determine if other types of care would be better. In a
politically kind comment the researcher stated, "We found that the
care leading to recommendations of hysterectomies in our cohort was
suboptimal."
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