Review of Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trials

Letter to the Editor: Editorial: Chance Encounters, Overdiagnosis, and Overtreatment

“…Advocates of this low-value procedure have written that patients participating in surgical randomized trials are not mentally competent to participate [10]. But as we wrote in response, this comment seems paradoxical, considering that psychological evaluations are rarely considered when our patients are offered surgical treatments which are anything but evidence-based [8].…”