Treating, Fast and Slow: Americans’ Understanding of and Responses to Low-Value Care

Milbank Quarterly

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 70-116

  Schlesinger, Mark ^a   Grob, Rachel ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

low value care; patient attitudes; patient choice; shared decision making

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUP; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOW VALUE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS MEDIUM; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85014554673     PISSN: 0887378X     EISSN: 14680009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12246     Document Type: Article

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