2020
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.m2752
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Covid-19: an opportunity to reduce unnecessary healthcare

Abstract: Recovering health systems can prioritise genuine need

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“…I agree with Moynihan and colleagues1 that the pandemic offers a “natural experiment in less medical care,” and that the results may help identify some interventions that do more harm than good to most people. I also agree that the financial crisis will focus our minds on the desirability of maximising value for money.…”
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“…I agree with Moynihan and colleagues1 that the pandemic offers a “natural experiment in less medical care,” and that the results may help identify some interventions that do more harm than good to most people. I also agree that the financial crisis will focus our minds on the desirability of maximising value for money.…”
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“…In der Anfangszeit der COVID-19-Pandemie war das nosokomiale Infektionsrisiko laut einer Metaanalyse hoch -4 von 10 stationär behandelte SARS-CoV-2-Infektionen waren auf eine Infektion im Krankenhaus zurückführen [19,20]. Ob die Nichtinanspruchnahme von Gesundheitsleistungen in bestimmten Bereichen sachgerecht ist und/oder zu einem Abbau von Überversorgung führt [21], ist für den Einzelfall wenig relevant. Für die adäquate Inanspruchnahme in der Pandemie ist die individuelle Gesundheitskompetenz entscheidend, d. h. die Fähigkeit, gesundheitliche Information zu suchen, zu finden, zu verstehen, zu bewerten und für gesundheitsbezogene Entscheidungen zu nutzen [22].…”
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“…Covid-19 is more than an opportunity to reduce unnecessary care, it is an opportunity to redesign the health system as a whole. While there is no problem with Moynihan and colleagues’1 emphasis on overtreatment and overdiagnosis, these are two of the many phenotypical failings of a “sickness system” that by the nature of its design delivers what we get.…”
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confidence: 99%