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Prevalence and cost of care cascades after low-value preoperative electrocardiogram for cataract surgery in fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries. JAMA Intern Med. 2019;179(9):1211-1219. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.1739 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 37. Furukawa MF, Kimmey L,...
Forgoing routine chest x-rays, electrocardiograms and other preoperative procedures—which studies have found to have no clinical benefit prior tocataract surgery—was associated with a savings of $67,241 over three years at one of the medical centers analyzed in the study. The change was also a...
29 We evaluated a multicomponent quality improvement (QI) initiative to reduce low-value preoperative care for patients undergoing cataract surgery at LAC-DHS. To understand the financial consequences on the health system associated with reductions in the use of low-value care, we performed a cost ...
Low vision ocular rehabilitation telehealth is an accepted, practical, timesaving, and cost-saving alternative option to traditional in-person consultations with a low visionoptometristand therapist. View chapterExplore book Advances in Ophthalmology and Optometry Volume 5 ...
Professional physician associations consider certain routine tests before elective surgery to be of low value and high cost, and have sought to discourage their utilization. Nonetheless, a new national study by researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center finds that despite these peer-reviewed recommendation...
The NGO makes eye treatment available at a fraction of the cost of privately owned centers. In these clinics, cataract surgery costs about $170, or N25,000, but the same service is provided at eye centers supported by Sightsavers for $13, about N2,000. ...
Other factors included fear of surgery ( n = 62, 17.5%), lack of faith in doctors ( n = 36, 10.1%), financial constraints ( n = 25, 7.0%) and lack of transportation ( n = 4, 1.1%). Conclusion: The principal barriers to low-cost cataract surgery uptake in rural China included ...
Prevalence and cost of care cascades after low-value preoperative electrocardiogram for cataract surgery in fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries. JAMA Intern Med. 2019. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.1739ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar 11. Freed M, Damico A, Neuman T. A dozen facts...
Prevalence and cost of care cascades after low-value preoperative electrocardiogram for cataract surgery in fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries. JAMA Intern Med. 2019;179(9):1211-1219. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.1739ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 2. Ganguli I, Simpkin AL, ...