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In search of professional consensus in defining and reducing low‐value care

In search of professional consensus in defining and reducing low‐value care

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In search of professional consensus in defining and reducing low‐value care

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In search of professional consensus in defining and reducing low‐value care

Publisher

Australia

Journal title

Medical journal of Australia, 2015-08, Vol.203 (4), p.179-181

Language

English

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Australia

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Summary
Care that confers no benefit or benefit that is disproportionately low compared with its cost is of low value and potentially wastes limited resources.
It has been claimed that low‐value care consumes at least 20% of health care resources in the United States — the comparable figure in Australia is unknown but there is emerging eviden...

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In search of professional consensus in defining and reducing low‐value care

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1704351023

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1704351023

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ISSN

0025-729X

E-ISSN

1326-5377

DOI

10.5694/mja14.01664

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