The healthcare in Germany had introduced copayments in the late 1990s in an attempt to prevent overutilization and control costs.
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Another contributing factor to overutilization is a lack of real time cost available to both the physician and the patient.
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A 2009 American Board of Radiology Foundation summit to address overutilization also identified defensive medicine and patients as contributory factors to the issue.
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It seeks to improve doctor patient relationships and promote patient-centered care by informing patients and physicians about overutilization of medical resources.
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Already in this early work she had particular interest in outside, particularly commercial forces, influencing physicians and the overutilization of medicines.
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It creates a potential financial conflict of interest with patients, as it incentivizes overutilization, treatments with an inappropriately excessive volume or cost.
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I would anticipate there will be discussion of our overutilization of oil and gas and what are we as a country going to do about it,
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In today's hawks and owls, females are usually considerably larger than the males; this prevents overutilization of one size class of prey.
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Financial disincentives, patient education, as well as improved management for patients with chronic diseases can also reduce overutilization and help to manage costs of care.
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It has been suggested that fragmented care processes, imperfect patient memory, and lack of electronic medical records also contribute to the overutilization of imaging services.
