OBJECTIVES The health care system faces ongoing challenges due to low-value care.
Building on the first pediatric hospital medicine contribution to the American Board of …

BACKGROUND Despite estimates that waste constitutes up to 20% of healthcare
expenditures in the United States, overuse of tests and therapies is significantly under …

Objective To use information about prevalence, cost, and variation in resource utilization to
prioritize comparative effectiveness research topics in hospital pediatrics. Design …

Changes in market-driven health care economics are rapid and of great magnitude. This
report describes a study of some of these changes in regard to children's health issues. We …

Abstract Background The American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation's Choosing
Wisely campaign has resulted in a vast number of recommendations to reduce low-value …

This Policy Statement was retired January 2006. Few issues are more central to the ongoing
debate about health care in the United States than concerns about cost and quality of …

Pediatric hospitalists care for many hospitalized children in community and academic
settings, and they must partner with administrators, other inpatient care providers, and …

In this issue of the Journal of Hospital Medicine, we introduce a new recurring
feature,“Choosing Wisely®: Next Steps in Improving Healthcare Value,” sponsored by the …

BACKGROUND: Pediatric hospitalist systems are increasing in popularity, but data
regarding the effects of hospitalist systems on the quality of care has been sparse, in part …

As health care costs continue to rise at an alarming rate, policy makers are increasingly
recognizing that managing costs, managed care organizations' primary approach to this …