Excessive medical tests or treatments drive up national healthcare spending and subject patients to unnecessary anxiety or risks from unneeded procedures, Mara Gordon, MD, a family physician in Washington, D.C., and media fellow, wrote for NPR.
To combat this issue, some medical educators are calling for new educational approaches to encourage more judicious use of tests and treatments.
For example, a group of medical professors at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Hospital are providing residents with real-time data on how they compare to peers in terms of unnecessary testing. The professors said they hope these personalized reports will encourage more thoughtful use of tests and procedures among residents.
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