Unnecessary health care (overutilization, overuse, or overtreatment) is health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. In the...

unaffected by the Affordable Care Act of 2010. ...intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives...

A health system, health care system or healthcare system is an organization of people, institutions, and resources that delivers health care services to...

Health care reform is for the most part governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place. Health care reform typically attempts...

Preoperative care refers to health care provided before a surgical operation. Preoperative care aims to do whatever is right to increase the success of...

pharmaceutical companies Philosophy of healthcare Unnecessary health care HEALTH PROFESSIONS [1] "Health Care Initiatives, Employment & Training Administration...

Universal health care (also called universal health coverage, universal coverage, or universal care) is a health care system in which all residents of...

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...

Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company...

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...

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...

palliative settings. They emphasize deprescribing medications that are unnecessary, which helps to reduce the problems of polypharmacy, drug interactions...

decreased economic burden of health care, and improved health outcomes for the population. In 2010, the World Health Organization's member countries...

Stewardship Programs. These programs outline opportunities for reducing unnecessary antibiotic usage, and provide guidelines for antibiotic prescription...

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...

of a conflict of interest in the healthcare industry leading to unnecessary health care. In many Western jurisdictions such as the United States, pharmacists...

Health care in Australia operates under a shared public-private model underpinned by the Medicare system, the national single-payer funding model. State...

appropriate based on evidence-based clinical standards of care. In contrast, unnecessary health care lacks such justification. Other countries may have medical...

questionable health care, exceeding the amount spent on biomedical research. Quackery is characterized by the promotion of false and unproven health schemes...

lead to an incorrect diagnosis of scoliosis that triggers a series of unnecessary medical interventions on adolescents. There can be diagnostic and therapeutic...

and an increased life expectancy as a result of ongoing improvement in health care services worldwide. About 21% of adults with intellectual disability...

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...

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...

States-based health educational campaign, led by the ABIM Foundation (American Board of Internal Medicine), about unnecessary health care. The campaign...

these lenses that CDMR can sometimes be viewed as an example of unnecessary health care. Non-medically indicated scheduling of childbirth before 39 weeks...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Unwarranted variation (or geographic variation) in health care service delivery refers to medical practice pattern variation that cannot be explained...