Wednesday 16 April 2014

Avoiding low-value care (video)

"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.

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