{"id":5016,"date":"2015-04-15T11:02:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=5016"},"modified":"2015-04-20T11:03:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:03:46","slug":"study-many-cataract-patients-given-needless-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2015\/study-many-cataract-patients-given-needless-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Many Cataract Patients Given Needless Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The New York Times<\/strong> - <\/em>Quotes Ellen Meara, associate professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, on the results of a recent study, which found that millions of older people are getting tests they don't need to prove they are healthy enough to have cataracts removed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2015\/04\/15\/health\/ap-us-med-cataracts-needless-tests.html&amp;_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>The New York Times <\/b><\/i>&#8211; Quotes Ellen Meara, associate professor of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, on the results of a recent study, which found that millions of older people are getting tests they don&#8217;t need to prove they are healthy enough to have cataracts removed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Study: Many Cataract Patients Given Needless Tests","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-1iU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5017,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5016\/revisions\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}