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The Cardiology Working Group highlights the need to explore solutions to escalating health care costs and emphasizes the search for value and appropriate utilization of resources in medical practice.
Discusses the need to explore health care costs and search for value in health care within cardiology practice.
THE ARTICLE prepared for this issue of JAMA by the Cardiology Working Group 1 is more evidence from concerned citizens (medical and nonmedical) of the need to explore the issues of and search for solutions to the escalation of health care costs that threaten the solvency of our health care system. The Cardiology Working Group is composed of distinguished individuals from the fields of medicine, law, business, and economics. It is my understanding that this article is a distillation of discussions held by this group over a period of many months. Their concern for the appropriate utilization of proved effective and beneficial resources in our medical care system is succinctly articulated. I believe what they are searching for is value in health care. Value is a personal measure of benefit, as well as a measure of cost. Value in health is subjective and, in many instances, undefined or unknown. Value
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William L. Winters (1991) conducted an editorial in Health care costs and value in medical practice. The Cardiology Working Group highlights the need to explore solutions to escalating health care costs and emphasizes the search for value and appropriate utilization of resources in medical practice.
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