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2025 update on paediatric healthcare overuse
Nathan M Money1, Danni Liang2, Elizabeth T Thomas3
1University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA nathan.money@hsc.utah.edu.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|January 23, 2026
Summary
This review identifies 10 key topics in pediatric healthcare overuse from 2023-2024, highlighting recent impactful research. It summarizes findings on medication harms, diagnostic testing, and treatment durations to improve child health outcomes.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Healthcare
- Medical Overuse Research
Background:
- Healthcare overuse in pediatrics is a growing concern.
- Identifying current trends is crucial for improving patient care and resource allocation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To identify and summarize impactful articles on pediatric healthcare overuse published between 2023 and 2024.
- To highlight 10 current topics in this field.
Main Methods:
- Manual table of contents review of high-impact journals.
- PubMed search strategy.
- Scoring articles using a rubric assessing methods strength, harm magnitude, and patient numbers.
- Author consensus for final selection.
Main Results:
- 212 articles were identified.
- 12 articles detailing 10 topics were selected by author consensus.
- Topics include harms of proton pump inhibitors, lipid screening constraints, early discharge for febrile neutropenia, oral antibiotics for bone and joint infections, ultrasound for fractures, opioid stewardship, and UTI management.
Conclusions:
- The review highlights impactful research on pediatric healthcare overuse.
- It introduces recent areas of concern and builds upon existing literature.
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