Unnecessary health care (overutilization, overuse, or overtreatment) is health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. In the...
45 KB (4,953 words) - 19:05, 3 July 2024
unaffected by the Affordable Care Act of 2010. ...intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives...
36 KB (4,342 words) - 06:56, 24 April 2024
A health system, health care system or healthcare system is an organization of people, institutions, and resources that delivers health care services to...
53 KB (5,043 words) - 17:29, 18 July 2024
Health care reform is for the most part governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts...
28 KB (3,537 words) - 18:19, 12 July 2024
Preoperative care refers to health care provided before a surgical operation. Preoperative care aims to do whatever is right to increase the success of...
10 KB (1,065 words) - 06:12, 8 April 2024
Healthcare industry (redirect from Health care services)
pharmaceutical companies Philosophy of healthcare Unnecessary health care HEALTH PROFESSIONS [1] "Health Care Initiatives, Employment & Training Administration...
27 KB (3,101 words) - 21:33, 21 August 2024
Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of...
57 KB (5,867 words) - 22:48, 24 July 2024
Healthcare in the United States (redirect from American health care system)
of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the US". A 2009 study done at Harvard Medical School with Cambridge Health Alliance...
222 KB (23,929 words) - 22:46, 15 August 2024
Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company...
14 KB (1,614 words) - 05:40, 15 August 2024
Overscreening (category Unnecessary health care)
are unlikely to develop a disease. Overscreening is a type of unnecessary health care. Overscreening is problematic because it can lead to risky or harmful...
27 KB (3,158 words) - 00:47, 10 March 2024
Defensive medicine (category Unnecessary health care)
of clinical medicine and is seen as a major factor in the increase in health care costs, estimated at tens of billions of dollars annually in the US. An...
10 KB (1,249 words) - 11:38, 19 September 2023
Beers criteria (category Unnecessary health care)
palliative settings. They emphasize deprescribing medications that are unnecessary, which helps to reduce the problems of polypharmacy, drug interactions...
14 KB (1,527 words) - 03:02, 2 January 2024
Single-payer healthcare (redirect from Single-payer health care system)
decreased economic burden of health care, and improved health outcomes for the population. In 2010, the World Health Organization's member countries...
95 KB (9,596 words) - 14:08, 25 May 2024
Antibiotic misuse (category Unnecessary health care)
Stewardship Programs. These programs outline opportunities for reducing unnecessary antibiotic usage, and provide guidelines for antibiotic prescription...
35 KB (3,606 words) - 03:20, 5 August 2024
The RAND Health Insurance Experiment (RAND HIE) was an experimental study from 1974 to 1982 of health care costs, utilization and outcomes in the United...
22 KB (2,404 words) - 19:08, 25 March 2024
of a conflict of interest in the healthcare industry leading to unnecessary health care. In many Western jurisdictions such as the United States, pharmacists...
8 KB (968 words) - 04:16, 28 November 2023
Health care in Australia operates under a shared public-private model underpinned by the Medicare system, the national single-payer funding model. State...
58 KB (6,693 words) - 09:59, 18 July 2024
Medical necessity (redirect from Medically unnecessary)
appropriate based on evidence-based clinical standards of care. In contrast, unnecessary health care lacks such justification. Other countries may have medical...
8 KB (930 words) - 03:45, 30 July 2024
Quackery (redirect from Health fraud)
questionable health care, exceeding the amount spent on biomedical research. Quackery is characterized by the promotion of false and unproven health schemes...
85 KB (9,437 words) - 02:52, 18 August 2024
Schooliosis (category Unnecessary health care)
lead to an incorrect diagnosis of scoliosis that triggers a series of unnecessary medical interventions on adolescents. There can be diagnostic and therapeutic...
2 KB (233 words) - 06:26, 14 March 2024
Polypharmacy (category Unnecessary health care)
and an increased life expectancy as a result of ongoing improvement in health care services worldwide. About 21% of adults with intellectual disability...
52 KB (6,027 words) - 06:22, 21 August 2024
Disease mongering (category Unnecessary health care)
diseases in order to capitalize on their treatment was first used in 1992 by health writer Lynn Payer, who applied it to the Listerine mouthwash campaign against...
11 KB (1,065 words) - 18:17, 13 July 2024
Overdiagnosis (category Unnecessary health care)
saves lives in some cases, in others it may turn people into patients unnecessarily and may lead to treatments that do no good and perhaps do harm. Given...
30 KB (3,455 words) - 09:07, 31 March 2024
Choosing Wisely (category Health campaigns)
States-based health educational campaign, led by the ABIM Foundation (American Board of Internal Medicine), about unnecessary health care. The campaign...
35 KB (3,707 words) - 02:58, 29 July 2024
Caesarean delivery on maternal request (category Unnecessary health care)
these lenses that CDMR can sometimes be viewed as an example of unnecessary health care. Non-medically indicated scheduling of childbirth before 39 weeks...
19 KB (2,332 words) - 13:01, 24 August 2024
Healthcare in India (redirect from Health care in India)
India has a multi-payer universal health care model that is paid for by a combination of public and government regulated (through the Insurance Regulatory...
98 KB (10,943 words) - 14:24, 6 August 2024
Selling Sickness (category Unnecessary health care)
Patients is a 2005 book by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels about unnecessary health care. The work discusses disease mongering. A summary in JAMA described...
6 KB (572 words) - 11:47, 27 July 2024
Health care quality is a level of value provided by any health care resource, as determined by some measurement. As with quality in other fields, it is...
44 KB (5,257 words) - 21:29, 24 August 2024
Overtreated (category Unnecessary health care)
us Sicker and Poorer is a 2007 book by Shannon Brownlee about unnecessary health care. The reviewer for The New York Times said that the book was "the...
5 KB (443 words) - 23:14, 13 July 2024
Unwarranted variation (category Unnecessary health care)
Unwarranted variation (or geographic variation) in health care service delivery refers to medical practice pattern variation that cannot be explained...
20 KB (2,342 words) - 06:55, 27 April 2024