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==Therapeutic inertia== | ==Therapeutic inertia== | ||
{{main|Therapeutic inertia}} | {{main|Therapeutic inertia}} | ||
Examples exist in: | |||
* [[Diabetes mellitus]] | |||
* [[Hypercholesterolemia]]<ref name="pmid30913959">{{cite journal| author=Bradley CK, Wang TY, Li S, Robinson JG, Roger VL, Goldberg AC | display-authors=etal| title=Patient-Reported Reasons for Declining or Discontinuing Statin Therapy: Insights From the PALM Registry. | journal=J Am Heart Assoc | year= 2019 | volume= 8 | issue= 7 | pages= e011765 | pmid=30913959 | doi=10.1161/JAHA.118.011765 | pmc=6509731 | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=30913959 }} </ref> | |||
* [[https://www.wikidoc.org/index.php/Chronic_hypertension_medical_therapy#Health_care_provider_barriers Hypertension]]. Therapeutic inertia may contribute to the finding that in the US 62%, and in Europe 85%, of office visits with a high blood pressure the health care provider does not increase medications.<ref name="pmid17242314">{{cite journal| author=Wang YR, Alexander GC, Stafford RS| title=Outpatient hypertension treatment, treatment intensification, and control in Western Europe and the United States. | journal=Arch Intern Med | year= 2007 | volume= 167 | issue= 2 | pages= 141-7 | pmid=17242314 | doi=10.1001/archinte.167.2.141 | pmc= | url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=17242314 }} </ref> | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Revision as of 02:37, 10 March 2020
In healthcare delivery, Health services underutilization is a form of health care misuse which is defined as "excessive, under or unnecessary utilization of health services by patients or physicians."[1]
Therapeutic inertia
Examples exist in:
- Diabetes mellitus
- Hypercholesterolemia[2]
- [Hypertension]. Therapeutic inertia may contribute to the finding that in the US 62%, and in Europe 85%, of office visits with a high blood pressure the health care provider does not increase medications.[3]
See also
External links
References
- ↑ Anonymous (2024), Health services underutilization (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- ↑ Bradley CK, Wang TY, Li S, Robinson JG, Roger VL, Goldberg AC; et al. (2019). "Patient-Reported Reasons for Declining or Discontinuing Statin Therapy: Insights From the PALM Registry". J Am Heart Assoc. 8 (7): e011765. doi:10.1161/JAHA.118.011765. PMC 6509731 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 30913959. - ↑ Wang YR, Alexander GC, Stafford RS (2007). "Outpatient hypertension treatment, treatment intensification, and control in Western Europe and the United States". Arch Intern Med. 167 (2): 141–7. doi:10.1001/archinte.167.2.141. PMID 17242314.