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Unnecessary health care

Unnecessary health care (overutilization, overuse, or overtreatment) is health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. In the United States, where health care costs are the highest as a percentage of GDP, overuse was the predominant factor in its expense, accounting for about a third of its health care spending ($750 billion out…

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Unnecessary health care

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Triples24
Avg. degree1.98
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related to Definition · 11
Unnecessary health care → Emanuel, Ezekiel, Fuchs, He, In, It, Jack Wennberg, Recently, The, US, Victor
related to Physician predispositions · 3
Unnecessary health care → Attempting, Dartmouth Medical School, Gilbert Welch

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health care overuse medical unnecessary patients medicare physicians services medicine patient spending clinical laboratory costs public tests overtreatment cost use

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Choosing Wisely initiative have encouraged patientsinstance ofIt is economically linked with overmedicalization.Campaigns0.80text
physicians to discuss the necessityinstance ofIt is economically linked with overmedicalization.Campaigns0.80text
potential risks of commonly overused testsinstance ofIt is economically linked with overmedicalization.Campaigns0.80text
proceduresinstance ofIt is economically linked with overmedicalization.Campaigns0.80text
relatively poorer health or medical malpracticeinstance ofAfter looking at other potential explanations0.80text
Gawande concluded the town was a chief example of the overuse of medical servicesinstance ofAfter looking at other potential explanations0.80text
Choosing Wisely initiative have encouraged patientsinstance ofcan view overutilization as adverse event.Campaigns0.80text
physicians to discuss the necessityinstance ofcan view overutilization as adverse event.Campaigns0.80text
potential risks of commonly overused testsinstance ofcan view overutilization as adverse event.Campaigns0.80text
procedures.Consumer cost sharing Consumer cost sharing See also.mw-parser-output .portalboxinstance ofcan view overutilization as adverse event.Campaigns0.80text
Unnecessary health carerelated to DefinitionJack Wennberg0.60section
Unnecessary health carerelated to DefinitionHe0.60section

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