| Autor: |
Linsk JA; Atlantic Hematology/Oncology Group, Absecon, NJ. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality [Am J Med Qual] 1993 Winter; Vol. 8 (4), pp. 174-80. |
| DOI: |
10.1177/0885713X9300800403 |
| Abstrakt: |
The health care crisis is easily defined as a progressive and massive rise in costs coupled with a failure of the system to provide care to a large minority of the population (37 million). Multiple remedies have been proposed, none of which confronts the core problem. This crisis has been largely produced by the American medical culture--how our physicians practice, what they do to and order for patients. Clearly, medical culture in other Western democracies is different, yielding better overall health care at a lower cost. A brief analysis of any of the sectors of medicine or surgery reveals the overabundance of clinical interventions that take place. The solution will require a major reduction in clinical interventions so many of which are questionable, useless, or even harmful. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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