Use of Low-Value Pediatric Services Among the Commercially Insured
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Use of Low-Value Pediatric Services Among the Commercially Insured.
BACKGROUND Claims-based measures of "low-value" pediatric services could facilitate the implementation of interventions to reduce the provision of potentially harmful services to children. However, few such measures have been developed. METHODS We developed claims-based measures of 20 services that typically do not improve child health according to evidence-based guidelines (eg, cough and col...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2016-1809