Eliminating waste in US health care.

By Donald M. Berwick, Andrew Hackbarth. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2012

1,680 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Carl A. Gunter
2. J. Sherman
3. M. Eckelman

In General Health Professions

1. Carl A. Gunter
2. J. Sherman
3. M. Eckelman

Citations in the corpus

• Environmental Impacts of the U.S. Health Care System and Effects on Public Health (2016, background): “Reducing waste can improve both economic and environmental performance without compromising quality of care [30].”
• Toward a science of learning systems: a research agenda for the high-functioning Learning Health System (2014, background): “Other studies suggest that as much as $750 billion annually, approximately 25% of total expenditures, is literally wasted on administrative inefficiencies, fraud, abuse, and treatments that do not work.(8,18) Even with such spending, it has long been recognized that patients do not receive over 45% ”