A new study from the Robert Graham Center examined the rate of low-value care services across the country. A LVC service could be a number of things, but the recent wave of research in this area is based off the Choosing Wisely campaign, which asked the major medical societies to come up with at...
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In our recent paper criticizing how industrial Quality Improvement has been misapplied to primary care, we didn’t just complain, we made suggestions for a better way forward. This was under the assumption that regulators and payers will continue to insist on some kind of numeric reporting of outcomes by physicians or...
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I must say, I’m very proud of the American Academy of Family Physicians for continuing to make statements about over-testing under the Choosing Wisely campaign umbrella. The Academy is more known for making wussy statements and taking wussy actions — the RUC wimp out being the prime example. So I salute...
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