"Overuse"--an overused term?

"Overuse"--an overused term?

Re: family physicians' knowledge of commonly overused treatments and tests.

PURPOSE In 2010, several primary care physician organizations drafted the "Promoting Good Stewardship in Clinical Practice" list for family medicine to advance the appropriate use of 5 commonly ordered treatments and tests. The goal was to achieve excellent patient care while appropriately conserving health care resources. The purpose of this study was to assess knowledge regarding the appropri...

Ultrasound Use and “Overuse”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General has issued a report concerning "high use" and "questionable use" ultrasound. Findings include those geographic areas where occurrences are most frequent, as well as the most common elements that characterize questionable use. While not its primary focus, emergency physician performed bedside ultrasound is within th...

Overuse and Disuse Weakness

Overuse can be defined as the chronic overloading of muscles in daily life activities resulting in physical complaints such as muscle fatigue and pain. Overuse can develop in case of a reduced capacity of muscle to endure loads due to paresis (slight or partial paralysis), but also when normal muscle is chronically overloaded, for instance when a muscle has to compensate for other paretic muscl...

Overuse injuries in musicians.

the problems that plainly exist in the NHS. Introducing medical audit, developing better information systems, devolving budgets to doctors whose decisions commit the expenditure of public money, revising the element of cross boundary flows in the RAWP (Resource Allocation Working Party) formula, searching for ways of rewarding rather than penalising productive hospitals, and controlling excessi...