Erschienen in:
08.07.2016 | Editorial
How Can We Improve the Efficiency of Specialty Care?
verfasst von:
John N. Mafi, MD, MPH, Samuel T. Edwards, MD, MPH
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 11/2016
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Excerpt
Nearly one third of health spending is considered potentially wasteful, and much of this consists of unnecessary or low value care.
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3 Recent efforts to reduce low value care, such as the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Choosing Wisely campaign, have identified lists of low value services by specialty. This effort has accelerated the national conversation among clinicians, patients, and policymakers about the potential harms and costs of low value care. But in a recent study, 26 of some of the most important items on the Choosing Wisely list represented only between 0.6 and 2.7 % of overall health spending among Medicare beneficiaries.
4 So how do we reconcile this modest figure with the well-documented torrent of potentially wasteful care? …