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Professional societies and other groups have begun to push for policy changes that would encourage clinicians to avoid providing unnecessary care. Most physicians accept that laboratory tests are overused, but "it remains difficult to persuade them to consider the possibility that they, too, might be
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in Pediatrics have been use of commercial rehydration solution, antidepressants, and parenteral nutrition; overmedicalization with planned early deliveries, immobilization of ankle injuries, use of hydrolyzed infant formula; and overdiagnosis of hypoxemia among children recovering from bronchiolitis.
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trillion. The Institute of Medicine quoted that 2010 report in a 2012 report to support an estimate of 8% ($ 210 billion) in unnecessary services, without explaining the discrepancy. This IOM 2012 report also said there were $ 555 billion in other wasted spending, which have an "unknown overlap" with
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can encourage patients to ask for drugs, devices, diagnostics, or procedures. Sometimes service providers will simply give these treatments or services rather than attempting the potentially more unpleasant task of convincing the patient what they have requested is not needed, or is likely to cause
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In the US, the country which spends the most on health care per person globally, patients have fewer doctor visits and fewer days in hospitals than people in other countries do, but prices are high, there is more use of some procedures and new drugs than elsewhere, and doctor salaries are double the
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In 2009 two US physicians wrote in an editorial, that unnecessary care was "defined as services which show no demonstrable benefit to patients" and might represent 30% of U.S. medical care. They referred to a 2003 study on regional variations in Medicare spending, which found, "Medicare enrollees in
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One type of overuse can be physician self-referral. Multiple studies have replicated the finding that when non-radiologists have an ownership interest in the fees generated by radiology equipment—and can self-refer—their use of imaging is unnecessarily higher. The majority of U.S. growth in imaging
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estimated in 2005, without giving its methods or sources, that "between $ .30 and $ .40 of every dollar spent on health care is spent on the costs of poor quality," amounting to" slightly more than a half-trillion dollars a year... wasted on overuse, underuse, misuse, duplication, system failures,
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In 1992, however, McAllen had been almost exactly in line with the Medicare spending average. After looking at other potential explanations such as relatively poorer health or medical malpractice, Gawande concluded the town was a chief example of the overuse of medical services. Gawande concluded
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defined overtreatment as "subjecting patients to care that, according to sound science and the patients' own preferences, cannot possibly help them—care rooted in outmoded habits, supply-driven behaviors, and ignoring science." They wrote that trying to do something (treatment or testing) for all
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In January 2012, the American College of Physicians Ethics, Professionalism, and Human Rights Committee suggested that overtreatment can also be understood in contrast to 'parsimonious care', defined as "care that utilizes the most efficient means to effectively diagnose a condition and treat a
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was launched to decrease the amount of unnecessary medical appointments. In the app patients are given a questionnaire about their symptoms, which then assesses the patient's need for medical care. The program was a success, and as of January 2018 has managed over 29,000 patient episodes.
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Dickerson JA, Fletcher AH, Procop G, Keren DF, Singh IR, Garcia JJ, Carpenter RB, Miles J, Jackson B, Astion ML (September 2017). "Transforming Laboratory Utilization Review into Laboratory Stewardship: Guidelines by the PLUGS National Committee for Laboratory Stewardship".
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Many blood transfusions in the U.S. are given without checking to see if they are needed after a previous transfusion, or are given in cases where monitoring, recovering the patient's own blood, or iron therapy would be effective and reduce the risk of
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and other sources. They looked at spending in 2008–2009 and found that these services represented 0.6% or 2.7% of Medicare costs and there was no significant pattern of particular types of physicians ordering these low value services. The
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defined unnecessary health care as "overutilization", health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. Recently, economists have sought to understand unnecessary health care in terms of misconsumption rather than
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receives goods and services but insurance pays for them (whether public insurance, private, or both). Such factors leave many actors in the system (doctors, patients, pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers) with inadequate
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to consider the cost of treatment, a combination that contributes to waste. Fee-for-service is a large incentive for overuse because health care providers (such as doctors and hospitals) receive revenue from the overtreatment.
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patients who might need it inevitably entails doing that same thing for some patients who might not need it." In uncertain situations, "some non-beneficial care was the necessary byproduct of optimal clinical decision making."
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recipients from doing more, whether 'more' is expressed as hospitalizations, surgical procedures, or consultations within the hospital." Up to 30% of Medicare spending could be cut in 2003 without harming patients.
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Since the meeting, the Lown Institute has focused its work on deepening the understanding of overuse and generating public discussion of the ethical and cultural drivers of overuse, especially on the role of the
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campaign, which aims to raise awareness of overtreatment and change physician behavior by publicizing lists of tests and treatments that are often overused, and which doctors and patients should try to avoid.
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reported "no one knows for sure" how much unnecessary care exists in the United States. Overuse of medical care is no longer a large fraction of total health care spending, which was $ 3.3 trillion in 2016.
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A study of low-value care in laboratory testing suggested that Medicare may have overspent at least US$ 1.95 billion on laboratory tests in the year 2019. The study found excessively frequent ordering of
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Health Policy Program convened the 'Avoiding Avoidable Care' conference. It was the first major medical conference to focus entirely on overuse, and it included presentations from speakers including
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In October 2015, two pediatricians said that considering "overtreatment as an ethical violation" could help see the conflicting incentives of health care workers for treatment or nontreatment.
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use (the fastest-growing physician service) comes from self-referring nonradiologists. In 2004, this overuse was estimated to contribute to $ 16 billion of annual U.S. health care costs.
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Smart D, Schreier J, Singh IR (June 2024). "Inappropriate Laboratory Testing: Significant Waste Quantified by a Large-Scale Year-Long Study of Medicare and Commercial Payer Reimbursement".
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is a favored explanation for high medical costs by physicians, Gawande estimated in 2010 it only contributed to 2.4% of the total $ 2.3 trillion of U.S. health care spending in 2008.
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Cassel, Christine. K. (of Choosing Wisely); Guest, James A. (of Consumer Reports) (2012). "Choosing Wisely - Helping Physicians and Patients Make Smart Decisions About Their Care".
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that a business culture (physicians viewing their practices as a revenue stream) had established itself there, in contrast to a culture of low-cost high-quality medicine at the
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Dartmouth Medical School professor Gilbert Welch argued 2016 that certain predispositions by physicians and the general public may lead to unnecessary health care, including:
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Overuse of diagnostic imaging, such as X-rays and CT scans, is defined as any application unlikely to improve patient care. Factors that contribute to overuse include "
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tools can help decrease unnecessary laboratory testing. The PLUGS initiative (Patient-Centered Laboratory Utilization Guidance Services) aims to formalize laboratory
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When care is overused, patients are put at risk of complications unnecessarily, with documented harm to patients from overuse of surgeries and other treatments.
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To protect themselves from legal prosecution U.S. physicians have an incentive to order clinically unnecessary tests or tests of little potential value. While
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higher-spending regions receive more care than those in lower-spending regions, but do not have better health outcomes or satisfaction with care."
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issued 2021 guidelines for the minimum time that should elapse before a given laboratory test is repeated in a specific clinical scenario.
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in 2010 gave two estimates of "unnecessary services," using different methodologies: 0.2% or 1% to 5% of health spending, which was
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practices. The TRUU-Lab (Test Renaming for Understanding and Utilization in the Laboratory) initiative is a cooperative effort of
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Treating patients with terminal illness to maximize life span over quality of life, without probing a patient's preferences
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Preferring newer over older treatments without considering the cost of new treatments or the effectiveness of older ones
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Gawande, Atul A.; Colla, Carrie H.; Halpern, Scott D.; Landon, Bruce E. (April 3, 2014). "Avoiding Low-Value Care".
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Patient safety committees, which are charged with reviewing the quality of care, can view overutilization as
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Surgeries in Medicare patients in their last year of life; regions with high levels had higher death rates
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of unnecessary care, though the potential incentives and penalties they face can influence their choices.
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Overuse of imaging can lead to a diagnosis of a condition that would have otherwise remained irrelevant (
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In April 2012, Berwick, from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and Andrew Hackbarth from the
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as a condition for payment. However, the threshold between necessity and lack thereof can often be
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