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90 relations: ABC News, Addiction, Adverse event, American College of Radiology, Annals of Internal Medicine, Antibiotic misuse, Antimicrobial resistance, Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Associated Press, Atul Gawande, Bernard Lown, Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Choosing Wisely, Christine K. Cassel, Consumer, Coronary artery bypass surgery, Coronary stent, Defensive medicine, Direct-to-consumer advertising, Donald Berwick, Elliott S. Fisher, Ezekiel Emanuel, F. L. Lucas, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fee-for-service, Forbes, Fresh Air, Grand Junction, Colorado, Gross domestic product, Health Affairs, Health care, Health care finance in the United States, Health care prices in the United States, Health professional, Healthcare in Canada, Hidden curriculum, Human papillomavirus infection, Incentive, Jack Wennberg, JAMA (journal), JAMA Internal Medicine, John D. Kemp, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, JudyAnn Bigby, Julio Frenk, Mayo Clinic, McAllen, Texas, Medical necessity, Medicare (United States), ..., Medicare fraud, Miami, Moral hazard, National Academy of Sciences, National health insurance, New America (organization), NPR, Overconsumption, Overdiagnosis, Overmedication, Pap test, Patient, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Perverse incentive, Physician self-referral, Price elasticity of demand, Proximate cause, Radiology (journal), RAND Corporation, Residency (medicine), Royal College of Radiologists, Shasta Regional Medical Center, Steven A. Schroeder, Subjectivity, Thérèse Stukel, The Baltimore Sun, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Lancet, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, This American Life, United States, University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, Unwarranted variation, USA Today, Utilization management, Uwe Reinhardt, Victor Fuchs, World Health Organization. Expand index (40 more) »
ABC News
ABC News is the news division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), owned by the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.
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Addiction
Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences.
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Adverse event
An adverse event (AE) is any untoward medical occurrence in a patient or clinical investigation subject administered a pharmaceutical product and which does not necessarily have a causal relationship with this treatment.
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American College of Radiology
The (ACR), founded in 1923, is a professional medical society representing more than 38,000 diagnostic radiologists, radiation oncologists, interventional radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians and medical physicists.
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Annals of Internal Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine is an academic medical journal published by the American College of Physicians (ACP).
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Antibiotic misuse
Antibiotic misuse, sometimes called antibiotic abuse or antibiotic overuse, refers to the misuse or overuse of antibiotics, with potentially serious effects on health.
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Antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR or AR) is the ability of a microbe to resist the effects of medication that once could successfully treat the microbe.
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Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
The Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (Arch Pathol Lab Med) is a core clinical medical journal published by the College of American Pathologists and the American Medical Association.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (born November 5, 1965) is an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher.
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Bernard Lown
Bernard Lown (born June 7, 1921) is the original developer of the DC defibrillator and the cardioverter.
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Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal
The Biomedical Imaging and Intervention Journal is a quarterly open access peer-reviewed medical journal established in July 2005.
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), is a federal agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that administers the Medicare program and works in partnership with state governments to administer Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and health insurance portability standards.
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Choosing Wisely
Choosing Wisely is a United States-based health educational campaign, led by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM).
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Christine K. Cassel
Christine K. Cassel is a leading expert in geriatric medicine, medical ethics and quality of care.
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Consumer
A consumer is a person or organization that use economic services or commodities.
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Coronary artery bypass surgery
Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, pronounced "cabbage") surgery, and colloquially heart bypass or bypass surgery, is a surgical procedure to restore normal blood flow to an obstructed coronary artery.
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Coronary stent
A coronary stent is a tube-shaped device placed in the coronary arteries that supply blood to the heart, to keep the arteries open in the treatment of coronary heart disease.
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Defensive medicine
Defensive medicine, also called defensive medical decision making, refers to the practice of recommending a diagnostic test or medical treatment that is not necessarily the best option for the patient, but an option that mainly serves the function to protect the physician against the patient as potential plaintiff.
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Direct-to-consumer advertising
Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTC advertising) usually refers to the marketing of pharmaceutical products but also applies to the direct marketing of medical devices, consumer diagnostics and sometimes financial services.
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Donald Berwick
Donald M. Berwick (born September 9, 1946) is a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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Elliott S. Fisher
Elliott S. Fisher is a researcher and advocate for improving health system performance and the director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Dartmouth College.
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Ezekiel Emanuel
Ezekiel Jonathan "Zeke" Emanuel (born September 6, 1957) is an American oncologist and bioethicist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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F. L. Lucas
Frank Laurence Lucas (28 December 1894 – 1 June 1967) was an English classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Fee-for-service
Fee-for-service (FFS) is a payment model where services are unbundled and paid for separately.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine.
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Fresh Air
Fresh Air is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States since 1985.
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Grand Junction, Colorado
The city of Grand Junction is the home rule municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Mesa County, Colorado, United States.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.
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Health Affairs
Health Affairs is a peer-reviewed healthcare journal established in 1981 by John K. Iglehart; since 2014, the editor-in-chief is Alan Weil.
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Health care
Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.
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Health care finance in the United States
Health care finance in the United States discusses how Americans obtain and pay for their healthcare, and why U.S. healthcare costs are the highest in the world based on various measures, without better results.
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Health care prices in the United States
Health care prices in the United States describes market and non-market factors that determine pricing, along with possible causes as to why prices are higher than other countries.
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Health professional
A health professional, health practitioner or healthcare provider (sometimes simply "provider") is an individual who provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to people, families or communities.
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Healthcare in Canada
Healthcare in Canada is delivered through thirteen provincial and territorial systems of publicly funded health care, informally called Medicare.
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Hidden curriculum
A hidden curriculum is a side effect of an education, " which are learned but not openly intended"Martin, Jane.
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Human papillomavirus infection
Human papillomavirus infection is an infection by human papillomavirus (HPV).
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Incentive
An incentive is something that motivates an individual to perform an action.
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Jack Wennberg
John E. "Jack" Wennberg (born June 2, 1934) is the pioneer and leading researcher of unwarranted variation in the healthcare industry.
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JAMA (journal)
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association is a peer-reviewed medical journal published 48 times a year by the American Medical Association.
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JAMA Internal Medicine
JAMA Internal Medicine is a peer-reviewed medical journal published monthly by the American Medical Association.
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John D. Kemp
John D. Kemp is an American disability rights leader who co founded the American Association of People with Disabilities and is currently the President & chief executive of the Viscardi center and the Henry Viscardi School.
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Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering health policy and health law as they relate to politics.
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JudyAnn Bigby
JudyAnn Bigby is an American doctor and the former Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2013.
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Julio Frenk
Julio José Frenk Mora (born December 20, 1953) is a Mexican physician and former secretary of Health of Mexico.
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Mayo Clinic
The Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit academic medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota focused on integrated clinical practice, education, and research.
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McAllen, Texas
McAllen is the largest city in Hidalgo County, Texas, United States, and the twenty-second most populous city in Texas.
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Medical necessity
Medical necessity is a United States legal doctrine, related to activities which may be justified as reasonable, necessary, and/or appropriate, based on evidence-based clinical standards of care.
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Medicare (United States)
In the United States, Medicare is a national health insurance program, now administered by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services of the U.S. federal government but begun in 1966 under the Social Security Administration.
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Medicare fraud
In the United States, Medicare fraud is the claiming of Medicare health care reimbursement to which the claimant is not entitled.
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Miami
Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.
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Moral hazard
In economics, moral hazard occurs when someone increases their exposure to risk when insured.
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National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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National health insurance
National health insurance (NHI) – sometimes called statutory health insurance (SHI) – is a system of health insurance that insures a national population against the costs of health care.
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New America (organization)
New America, formerly the New America Foundation, is a non-partisan think tank in the United States.
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NPR
National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.
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Overconsumption
Overconsumption is a situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem.
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Overdiagnosis
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's ordinarily expected lifetime.
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Overmedication
Overmedication is an inappropriate medical treatment that occurs when a patient takes unnecessary or excessive medications.
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Pap test
The Papanicolaou test (abbreviated as Pap test, also known as Pap smear, cervical smear, or smear test) is a method of cervical screening used to detect potentially pre-cancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix (opening of the uterus or womb).
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Patient
A patient is any recipient of health care services.
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
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Perverse incentive
A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result which is contrary to the interests of the incentive makers.
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Physician self-referral
Physician self-referral is a term describing the practice of a physician ordering tests on a patient that are performed by either the referring physician himself or a fellow faculty member from whom he receives financial compensation in return for the referral.
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Price elasticity of demand
Price elasticity of demand (PED or Ed) is a measure used in economics to show the responsiveness, or elasticity, of the quantity demanded of a good or service to a change in its price when nothing but the price changes.
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Proximate cause
In the law, a proximate cause is an event sufficiently related to an injury that the courts deem the event to be the cause of that injury.
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Radiology (journal)
Radiology is a monthly, peer reviewed, medical journal, owned and published by the Radiological Society of North America.
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RAND Corporation
RAND Corporation ("Research ANd Development") is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces.
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Residency (medicine)
Residency is a stage of graduate medical training.
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Royal College of Radiologists
The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) is the professional body responsible for the specialty of clinical oncology and clinical radiology throughout the United Kingdom.
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Shasta Regional Medical Center
Shasta Regional Medical Center, formerly known as Redding Medical Center, is one of two major hospitals that are located in Redding, California.
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Steven A. Schroeder
Steven A. Schroeder is Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also heads the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center.
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Subjectivity
Subjectivity is a central philosophical concept, related to consciousness, agency, personhood, reality, and truth, which has been variously defined by sources.
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Thérèse Stukel
Thérèse A. Stukel is a Canadian statistician who works as a senior core scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, as a professor in the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation of the University of Toronto, and as an adjunct professor of epidemiology and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice at Dartmouth College.
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The Baltimore Sun
The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the American state of Maryland and provides coverage of local and regional news, events, issues, people, and industries.
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The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI) is an organization within Dartmouth College "dedicated to improving health care through education, research, policy reform, leadership improvement, and communication with patients and the public." It was founded in 1988 by John Wennberg as the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS); a reorganization in 2007 led to TDI's current structure.
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The Lancet
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
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This American Life
This American Life (TAL) is an American weekly hour-long radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center
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Unwarranted variation
Unwarranted variation (or geographic variation) in health care service delivery refers to medical practice pattern variation that cannot be explained by illness, medical need, or the dictates of evidence-based medicine.
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USA Today
USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.
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Utilization management
Utilization Management (UM) is the use of techniques that allow purchasers to manage the cost of health care benefits by assessing its appropriateness before it is provided using evidence-based criteria or guidelines.
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Uwe Reinhardt
Uwe Ernst Reinhardt (September 24, 1937 – November 14, 2017) was a professor of political economy at Princeton University and held several positions in the healthcare industry.
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Victor Fuchs
Victor Robert Fuchs (born 1924) is an American health economist.
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World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO; French: Organisation mondiale de la santé) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with international public health.
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References
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