Statistical Misinterpretations and Clinical Practice Guidelines: any examples?

Here is another good example, mentioned in another data methods thread:

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We find that in all cases the provision of HHC increased the probability of readmission of the treated patients. This casts doubt on the appropriateness of the 30-day readmission rate as an indicator of hospital performance and a criterion for hospital reimbursement, as it is currently used for Medicare patients.

Alecos Papadopoulos & Roland B. Stark (2021) Does Home Health Care Increase the Probability of 30-Day Hospital Readmissions? Interpreting Coefficient Sign Reversals, or Their Absence, in Binary Logistic Regression Analysis, The American Statistician, 75:2, 173-184, DOI: 10.1080/00031305.2019.1704873 link

It is a shame this paper is paywalled, but here is a brief blog post by one of the authors:

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