Comparative Effectiveness and Health Care Spending — Implications for Reform
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- 4 February 2010
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 362 (5), 460-465
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsb0911104
Abstract
In this Sounding Board article, the authors argue that health care costs can be reduced without a negative effect on quality by reducing spending on interventions that are not cost-effective.Keywords
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