Over 150 potentially low‐value health care practices: an Australian study
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OBJECTIVE To develop and apply a novel method for scanning a range of sources to identify existing health care services (excluding pharmaceuticals) that have questionable benefit, and produce a list of services that warrant further investigation. DESIGN AND SETTING A multiplatform approach to identifying services listed on the Australian Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS; fee-for-service) that ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal of Australia
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0025-729X,1326-5377
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.11083