"The enormous cost of health care in the United States, driven in part by the fee-for-service payment system, has inspired new efforts to assess the true value of commonly provided services. When a service is widely recognized as providing little or no benefit, what should be done to reduce its use?"
Perspective roundtable: avoiding low-value care
AA Gawande, CH Colla, SD Halpern, BE Landon
New England Journal of Medicine, 2014, 370: e21
Watch the video discussion here.
QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) aims to help NHS organisations deliver higher quality care and operate more efficiently and effectively. The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust has set up a programme to implement QIPP across the trust. This blog, delivered by the RFH Medical Library, will highlight latest papers about QIPP to support the Trust as they carry out this work.
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