Snapshots Of Low Value Medical Care

Snapshots of Low-Value Medical Care | Ophthalmology

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Have you ever had a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of your brain? I have. I was lying on a plank in my underwear and a hospital gown, with a cold peripheral intravenous (IV) line in my arm and a woolen blanket draped over me. A plastic …

A Framework for Measuring Low-Value Care - PubMed

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Background: It has been estimated that more than 30% of health care spending in the United States is wasteful, and that low-value care, which drives up costs unnecessarily …

Reducing Low-Value Care | Health Affairs

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Strategies to Reduce Low-Value Cardiovascular Care: A …

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Prior studies and a report from the National Academy of Medicine have shown that ≈30% of health care spending may be considered unnecessary or wasteful. 1 …

Low-Value Medical Services in the Safety-Net Population

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Importance: National patterns of low-value and high-value care delivered to patients without insurance or with Medicaid could inform public policy but have not been …

Measuring low-value care - MedPAC

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Motivation for examining low-value care Several recent studies of low-value care Choosing Wisely: over 70 medical societies identified over 400 tests and procedures that …

Low-Value Care - University of Michigan V-BID Center

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Low-value care can be defined as “[s]ervices that provide little or no benefit to patients, have potential to cause harm, incur unnecessary cost to patients, or waste limited …

Identifying and Eliminating Low-Value Care

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Even physicians are not likely to question care recommended by subspecialists, as Craig Umscheid, MD describes in "Snapshots of Low-Value Medical Care" in JAMA Internal …

Snapshots of low-value medical care. | Semantic Scholar

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A brain MRI scan, eye ultrasonography, and a visual field test to rule out multiple sclerosis (MS), subclinical neurovascu-lar disease, masses compressing my fourth cranial nerve, …

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Request PDF | Snapshots of Low-Value Medical Care | Have you ever had a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of your brain? I have. I was lying on a plank in …