Purpose This small-scale, preliminary study was intended to evaluate the effectiveness of a
structured educational intervention designed to enhance cost-awareness in medicine …

Background Knowing what influences physicians attitudes toward health care costs is an
important matter, because most health care expenditures are the results of doctors' …

Purpose An estimated 20% of health care expenditures are wasteful. Educational
interventions aimed at reducing waste by delivering high-value, cost-conscious care (HV3C) …

Studies of cost and value can inform educational decision making, yet our understanding of
the barriers to such research is incomplete. To address this gap, our aim was to explore the …

Background: Student failure creates additional economic costs. Knowing the cost of failure
helps to frame its economic burden relative to other educational issues, providing an …

Objectives Clinicians increasingly believe they should discuss costs with their patients. We
aimed to learn what strategies clinicians, clinic leaders, and health systems can use to …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Physicians have dual responsibilities to make medical
decisions that serve their patients' best interests but also utilize health care resources wisely …

Health professions education is big business, with an annual worldwide cost of over $100
billion USD. 1 Despite this enormous investment, cost has rarely been rigorously evaluated …

Objectives: In a resource-constrained reality, physicians are facing polar demands—those of
healthcare managements to adopt cost-conscious behaviors and those of ethical standards …

The largest discrepancy detected by Goold and Stern (2006) in their study of resident and
nonresident physicians' attitudes towards areas of improved focus in residency ethics …