Overuse of health care services when less is more...More or less

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 1277-1278

  Lipitz Snyderman, Allison ^a   Bach, Peter B ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EXPECTATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LOW RISK POPULATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SERVICE; METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER; MORTALITY; NOTE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

COST SAVINGS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; PATIENT PREFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880684268     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.6181     Document Type: Note

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