Health services underutilization
In healthcare delivery, Health services underutilization is a form of health care misuse which is defined as "excessive, under or unnecessary utilization of health services by patients or physicians."[1]
Therapeutic inertia
Examples exist in:
- Diabetes mellitus
- Hypercholesterolemia[2]
- Hypertension. Therapeutic inertia may contribute to the finding that in the US 62%, and in Europe 85%, of office visits with a high blood pressure the health care provider does not increase medications.[3]
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References
- ↑ Anonymous (2024), Health services underutilization (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- ↑ Bradley CK, Wang TY, Li S, Robinson JG, Roger VL, Goldberg AC; et al. (2019). "Patient-Reported Reasons for Declining or Discontinuing Statin Therapy: Insights From the PALM Registry". J Am Heart Assoc. 8 (7): e011765. doi:10.1161/JAHA.118.011765. PMC 6509731 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 30913959. - ↑ Wang YR, Alexander GC, Stafford RS (2007). "Outpatient hypertension treatment, treatment intensification, and control in Western Europe and the United States". Arch Intern Med. 167 (2): 141–7. doi:10.1001/archinte.167.2.141. PMID 17242314.