Doctors as Resource Stewards? Translating High-Value, Cost-Conscious Care to the Consulting Room.

ABSTRACT: After many policy attempts to tackle the persistent rise in the costs of health care, physicians are increasingly seen as potentially effective resource stewards. Frameworks including the quadruple aim, value-based health care and choosing wisely underline the importance of positive engagement of the health care workforce in reinventing the system-paving the way to real affordability by defining the right care. Current programmes focus on educating future doctors to provide 'high-value, cost-conscious care' (HVCCC), which proponents believe is the future of sustainable medical practice. Such programmes, which aim to extend population-level allocation concerns to interactions between an individual doctor and patient, have generated lively debates about the ethics of expanding doctors' profe

SUBMITTER: Moleman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9741564 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature