Importance Medical overuse is common in pediatrics and may lead to unnecessary care,
resource use, and patient harm. Timely scrutiny of established and emerging practices can
identify areas of overuse and empower clinicians to reconsider the balance of harms and
benefits of the medical care that they provide. A literature review was conducted to identify
the most important areas of pediatric medical overuse in 2018. Observations Consistent with
prior methods, a structured MEDLINE search and manual table of contents review of …