Low-Value Care at the Actionable Level of Individual Health Systems.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Low-value health care remains prevalent in the US despite decades of work to measure and reduce such care. Efforts have been only modestly effective in part because the measurement of low-value care has largely been restricted to the national or regional level, limiting actionability.

Objectives

To measure and report low-value care use across and within individual health systems and identify system characteristics associated with higher use using Medicare administrative data.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study of health system-attributed Medicare beneficiaries was conducted among 556 health systems in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Compendium of US Health Systems and included system-attributed beneficiaries who

SUBMITTER: Ganguli I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8477305 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature