TY - JOUR
T1 - Appropriate use of screening and diagnostic tests to foster high-value, cost-conscious care
AU - Qaseem, Amir
AU - Alguire, Patrick
AU - Dallas, Paul
AU - Feinberg, Lawrence E.
AU - Fitzgerald, Faith T.
AU - Horwitch, Carrie
AU - Humphrey, Linda
AU - LeBlond, Richard
AU - Moyer, Darilyn
AU - Wiese, Jeffrey G.
AU - Weinberger, Steven
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Unsustainable rising health care costs in the United States have made reducing costs while maintaining high-quality health care a national priority. The overuse of some screening and diagnostic tests is an important component of unnecessary health care costs. More judicious use of such tests will improve quality and reflect responsible awareness of costs. Efforts to control expenditures should focus not only on benefits, harms, and costs but on the value of diagnostic tests-meaning an assessment of whether a test provides health benefits that are worth its costs or harms. To begin to identify ways that practicing clinicians can contribute to the delivery of high-value, cost-conscious health care, the American College of Physicians convened a workgroup of physicians to identify, using a consensus-based process, common clinical situations in which screening and diagnostic tests are used in ways that do not reflect high-value care. The intent of this exercise is to promote thoughtful discussions about these tests and other health care interventions to promote high-value, cost-conscious care.
AB - Unsustainable rising health care costs in the United States have made reducing costs while maintaining high-quality health care a national priority. The overuse of some screening and diagnostic tests is an important component of unnecessary health care costs. More judicious use of such tests will improve quality and reflect responsible awareness of costs. Efforts to control expenditures should focus not only on benefits, harms, and costs but on the value of diagnostic tests-meaning an assessment of whether a test provides health benefits that are worth its costs or harms. To begin to identify ways that practicing clinicians can contribute to the delivery of high-value, cost-conscious health care, the American College of Physicians convened a workgroup of physicians to identify, using a consensus-based process, common clinical situations in which screening and diagnostic tests are used in ways that do not reflect high-value care. The intent of this exercise is to promote thoughtful discussions about these tests and other health care interventions to promote high-value, cost-conscious care.
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U2 - 10.7326/0003-4819-156-2-201201170-00011
DO - 10.7326/0003-4819-156-2-201201170-00011
M3 - Article
C2 - 22250146
AN - SCOPUS:84855822380
SN - 0003-4819
VL - 156
SP - 147
EP - 149
JO - Annals of internal medicine
JF - Annals of internal medicine
IS - 2
ER -