While this increased availability of advanced imaging has been associated with improved patient outcomes for some diseases [2], there are growing concerns about the possibility of inappropriate utilization of imaging because of its potential contribution to both patient harm [3, 4] and rising health care costs [5, 6].
This difference may be due to the increasing rate of inappropriate utilization of antibiotics in the dairy farms which favors selection pressure that increased the advantage of maintaining resistance genes in bacteria [ 24, 25].
To avoid an inappropriate utilization of ICUs for the elderly, particularly the oldest-old patients (>85 years), admission policies must be better defined.
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, said the pilot program had reduced Medicare costs by 42 percent, or $202 million, by securing lower prices and curbing "inappropriate utilization" of personal medical equipment in the nine markets.
By making the "cloned" text immediately and permanently apparent, this approach may both decrease inappropriate utilization of copy-paste and facilitate monitoring and auditing.
In the year 1993, the ACR was already prepared to define a system of patient care guidelines for radiology to eliminate inappropriate utilization of radiologic services and to produce substantial savings to the health-care system, without a negative impact on the quality of care.
To determine whether the use of information technology (IT), measured by Meaningful Use capability, is associated with lower rates of inappropriate utilization of imaging services in hospital outpatient settings.
By contrast, overdiagnosis could lead to greater and inappropriate utilization of resources and higher care costs.
This is costly, can result in inappropriate utilization of health care resources, and even patient management errors [ 14].
In Asia, particularly in less developed countries, healthcare resources remain limited and inappropriate utilization of these resources can have serious implications for vast numbers of the population.
Inappropriate utilization of high cost, high complexity testing can have undesirable downstream effects that include unneeded additional testing, invasive procedures, and patient distress for borderline abnormal results.
