In the drive to decrease low-value care, many don't assess the right impacts on patients

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Health care institutions and providers face mounting pressure to wring more value out of every dollar spent on caring for their patients. A new review shows that most efforts to decrease low-value care have based their measurement of success on how much they reduced the overall use of certain tests and treatments. Far fewer looked at whether these efforts actually ensured that patients got more appropriate care and avoided unintended negative conseque...