Overuse of Health Care Services
- 22 July 2013
- journal article
- viewpoint
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Internal Medicine
- Vol. 173 (14), 1277-1278
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.6181
Abstract
There is widespread agreement that more is not always better in health care. Doing more can harm patients, generate excess costs, and defy patient preferences.Keywords
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