Some supporters of last fall's initiative said they were reacting to the "overtreatment" given patients in their last days.
An overreliance on patient surveys, she says, only inflames the problem of overtreatment.
Given the extent of the procedure, that CPM is done on patients without clinical reason raises strong concerns about overtreatment.
Because the Americans harmed by unsafe care or overtreatment or undertreatment include Republicans, Democrats and those utterly indifferent to politics.
One is transparency: if more information about overtreatment is available to the public, it will be harder for providers to abuse.
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Overtreatment is unlikely to be the norm in the era of HMOs.
What results is a poorer quality of care, more overtreatment, more fraud, more medical mistakes, and more patients falling through the cracks.
The overtreatment finally stopped once a few brave patients started asking questions after getting second opinions from other doctors who could see no blockages.
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In addition, it is difficult to determine with certainty that early whether a baby is HIV-positive, and overtreatment would risk wasting scarce medications that offer a better chance of helping other patients.
And that will mean rewarding doctors and hospitals if they band together to form Grand Junction-like accountable-care organizations, in which doctors collaborate to increase prevention and the quality of care, while discouraging overtreatment, undertreatment, and sheer profiteering.
While breast care experts acknowledge that mammography is imprecise and can lead to false positives, undue anxiety and overtreatment, they say it is the best tool they have for detecting breast cancer and that the benefits far outweigh any potential harms.
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