Key result
In the setting of perioperative medicine, value gaps in health care delivery may be unrecognized and underappreciated in the United States.
Why the study?
A national strategy is needed to bend the cost curve of the US healthcare delivery model, where value gaps in perioperative medicine may be unrecognized and underappreciated.
Highlights the need for re-engineering the health care delivery system in the US, particularly in perioperative medicine, to improve value and cost-effectiveness.
Calls for national value-based strategies in US health care; leaves open empirical testing in orthopaedics.
In the United States, the economics of health has caused us to recognize that a national strategy is needed to quickly and effectively bend the cost curve of a system that is globally noncompetitive with respect to value and is unsustainable in its current form as a health care delivery model. Heretofore, US national policy and health care reform efforts have principally focused on addressing gaps in coverage. Going forward in the United States the drivers of value for health care will most likely come from re-engineering the delivery system itself. In the setting of perioperative medicine, these value gaps maybe unrecognized and underappreciated.
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Aronson et al. (2019) conducted an editorial in Perioperative medicine and value-based care. In the setting of perioperative medicine, value gaps in health care delivery may be unrecognized and underappreciated in the United States.
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