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Economic burden: Not only the associated cost of treatment (from which the patient cannot benefit, because the disease posed no threat), but also—at least, in the current health care system in the United States—a potential increase in the cost of health insurance or even an inability to procure it (e.g. the diagnosis creates a pre-existing ...
Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of "disease" that will never cause symptoms or death during a patient's lifetime. [9] It is a problem because it turns people into patients unnecessarily and because it can lead to economic waste [10] (overutilization) and treatments that may cause harm. Overdiagnosis occurs when a disease is diagnosed correctly ...
A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses foster the nurse's independent practice (e.g., patient comfort or relief) compared to dependent interventions driven by physician ...
Overscreening is a type of unnecessary health care, so the causes of unnecessary health care are also causes of overscreening. Some causes include financial biases for physicians to recommend more treatment in health care systems using fee-for-service and physician self-referral practices; and physicians' practice of defensive medicine.
With over 1 billion people worldwide estimated to be living with obesity, the Commission’s proposal offers health systems a chance to adopt a universal, clinically meaningful definition of ...
The Clinical Care Classification (CCC) System is a standardized, coded nursing terminology that identifies the discrete elements of nursing practice. The CCC provides a unique framework and coding structure. Used for documenting the plan of care; following the nursing process in all health care settings. [1]
Clinical peer review, also known as medical peer review is the process by which health care professionals, including those in nursing and pharmacy, evaluate each other's clinical performance. [1] [2] A discipline-specific process may be referenced accordingly (e.g., physician peer review, nursing peer review).
An NHS England spokesperson said: “Nice (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) has published updated guidance regarding the identification, assessment, treatment and ...