Waste in the US Health Care System

In this issue of JAMA, Shrank and colleagues examine the critically important issue of waste in the US health care system. Their Special Communication represents an analytic update of 2 prominent previous analyses on waste in US health care, one by the Institute of Medicine in 2010 and the other by...

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Published in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2019-10, Vol.322 (15), p.1463-1464
Main Authors: Bauchner, Howard, Fontanarosa, Phil B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Health care
Health care expenditures
Health care industry
Medical wastes
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Summary:In this issue of JAMA, Shrank and colleagues examine the critically important issue of waste in the US health care system. Their Special Communication represents an analytic update of 2 prominent previous analyses on waste in US health care, one by the Institute of Medicine in 2010 and the other by Berwick and Hackbarth in 2012.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2019.15353