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Variations in healthcare provider training & experience [46] [53] and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk. [54] [55] The so-called July effect occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006.
Unnecessary health care (overutilization, overuse, or overtreatment) is health care provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. [1] 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 of $2.6 trillion) in 2012.
Affordable Health Care for America (H.R. 3962) America's Affordable Health Choices (H.R. 3200) Baucus Health Bill (S. 1796) Proposed. American Health Care Act (2017) Medicare for All Act (2021, H.R. 1976) Healthy Americans Act (2007, 2009) Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) Latest enacted. Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) Health Care and Education ...
Patient safety is a discipline focused on improving health care through the prevention, reduction, reporting, and analysis of errors and other types of unnecessary harm that often lead to adverse patient events.
"Effects of Cost Sharing on Use of Medical Services and Health" (PDF). Medical Practice Management. 8: 317– 321. – summarizes major findings of the RAND Health Insurance Experiment; Normand, C (June 25, 1994). "Views and reviews – Free for All: Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment". The BMJ. 308. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd: 1724.
Comparison of the healthcare systems in Canada and the United States; Health crisis; Health Disparities Center; Health economics (Germany) Health equity; Health impact assessment; Health law; Health literacy; Health services research; Health spending as percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by country; Health surveillance; Health system ...
Utilization management is "a set of techniques used by or on behalf of purchasers of health care benefits to manage health care costs by influencing patient care decision-making through case-by-case assessments of the appropriateness of care prior to its provision," as defined by the Institute of Medicine [1] Committee on Utilization Management by Third Parties (1989; IOM is now the National ...
The term "curse of knowledge" was coined in a 1989 Journal of Political Economy article by economists Colin Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Martin Weber.The aim of their research was to counter the "conventional assumptions in such (economic) analyses of asymmetric information in that better-informed agents can accurately anticipate the judgement of less-informed agents".