Choosing Wisely: Prevalence and Correlates of Low-Value Health Care Services in the United States
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Choosing wisely: low-value services, utilization, and patient cost sharing.
THE JUNE 2012 ISSUE OF CONSUMER REPORTS includes a cover story entitled “5 Medical Tests You Don’t Need.” The story reflects a joint Choosing Wisely initiative by Consumer Reports and the American Board of Internal Medicine aimed at “encouraging physicians, patients and other health care stakeholders to think and talk about medical tests and procedures that may be unnecessary, and in some insta...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Internal Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0884-8734,1525-1497
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-3070-z