Educating Trainees About Appropriate and Cost-Conscious Diagnostic Testing
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Re: Appropriate use of screening and diagnostic tests to foster high-value, cost-conscious care.
Unsustainable rising health care costs in the United States have made reducing costs while maintaining high-quality health care a national priority. The overuse of some screening and diagnostic tests is an important component of unnecessary health care costs. More judicious use of such tests will improve quality and reflect responsible awareness of costs. Efforts to control expenditures should ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/acm.0b013e3182308db7