How to reduce overuse in healthcare : a practical guide /
"Low-value care refers to care that is not proven to provide benefits to patients or where benefits are small in relation to its harms and costs compared to alternatives (including doing nothing) and do not address patients' preferences. Over the last two decades, we have seen increasing g...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Low-value care refers to care that is not proven to provide benefits to patients or where benefits are small in relation to its harms and costs compared to alternatives (including doing nothing) and do not address patients' preferences. Over the last two decades, we have seen increasing global recognition of the existence of low-value care and its negative consequences. These include (direct and indirect) patient harms, unnecessary workload for hard pressed healthcare professionals, wasted healthcare resources and negative impacts on the climate. Low-value care may relate to both overdiagnosis and overtreatment. We are faced with major challenges such as demographic changes in societies globally with an increase in the elderly who often require healthcare, advances in biomedical discoveries that offer new therapeutic opportunities (but nearly always at increased costs) and human health resources challenges. There is an urgent need to address these challenges to protect patients, healthcare professionals and systems, and the planet"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119862741 1119862744 9781119862734 1119862736 |