Chief Healthcare Executive January 14, 2022
A study of hundreds of healthcare systems identified common characteristics. Some factors relate to size and ownership, researchers say.
Overuse of healthcare can drive up costs and hurt patients, and a new study sheds light on the factors driving the problem.
The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, identifies some common characteristics of systems that are more likely to demonstrate overuse.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University developed an “Overuse Index” consisting of 17 different factors, including the number of hospitals in a system, the number of beds, and the number of primary care physicians, among others.
The study examined data from 676 healthcare systems, including 3,839 hospitals and affiliated outpatient sites.
“Those that were overusing health...
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