Evidence-Based Medicine is an Effective Tool that Should be More Broadly Adopted

WBUR's CommonHealth Blog
September 30, 2008

In my past blogging I have written about the necessary societal shift to prevention and wellness to improve health and reduce health care costs, but that shift doesn’t happen in a vacuum...

According to a study released earlier this year by the New England Healthcare Institute titled, “Waste and Inefficiency in the U.S. Health Care System,” there are numerous opportunities for dramatic costs saving in today’s health care system by eliminating waste, which was defined as health care spending that can be eliminated without reducing the quality of care.

... the area that has the most opportunity for improving quality and reducing costs is reducing variation in intensity of medical and surgical services, which can be done by using evidence-based data to identify best practices. In other words, ensuring that the right care is being delivered at the right time and in the right setting.

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