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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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The extracted context around Unnecessary health care shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Unnecessary health care → Emanuel, Ezekiel, Fuchs, Jack Wennberg, Recently, US, Victor Another extracted example is Unnecessary health care → Attempting, Dartmouth Medical School, Gilbert Welch. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 19 structured relationships around Unnecessary health care. Examples in this analysis include Choosing Wisely initiative have encouraged patients → instance of → It is economically linked with overmedicalization.Campaigns and relatively poorer health or medical malpractice → instance of → After looking at other potential explanations. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Choosing Wisely initiative have encouraged patients | instance of | It is economically linked with overmedicalization.Campaigns | 0.80 | text |
| physicians to discuss the necessity | instance of | It is economically linked with overmedicalization.Campaigns | 0.80 | text |
| potential risks of commonly overused tests | instance of | It is economically linked with overmedicalization.Campaigns | 0.80 | text |
| procedures | instance of | It is economically linked with overmedicalization.Campaigns | 0.80 | text |
| relatively poorer health or medical malpractice | instance of | After looking at other potential explanations | 0.80 | text |
| Gawande concluded the town was a chief example of the overuse of medical services | instance of | After looking at other potential explanations | 0.80 | text |
| Choosing Wisely initiative have encouraged patients | instance of | can view overutilization as adverse event.Campaigns | 0.80 | text |
| physicians to discuss the necessity | instance of | can view overutilization as adverse event.Campaigns | 0.80 | text |
| potential risks of commonly overused tests | instance of | can view overutilization as adverse event.Campaigns | 0.80 | text |
| Unnecessary health care | related to Definition | Jack Wennberg | 0.60 | section |
| Unnecessary health care | related to Definition | US | 0.60 | section |
| Unnecessary health care | related to Definition | Ezekiel | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around Unnecessary health care bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Care, Health and Overuse. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Unnecessary health care, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Unnecessary health care with Reduction efforts. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Unnecessary health care to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Applications & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Unnecessary health care · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout