Attitudes on Equal Health Care Access versus Efficient Clinical Decisions across a Not-for-Profit Health Care System
Ganeev Singh,
Laura Corlin,
Paul R. Beninger
et al.
Abstract:Background Professional roles within a hospital system may influence attitudes behind clinical decisions. Objective To determine participants’ preferences about clinical decisions that either value equal health care access or efficiency. Design Deidentified survey asking participants to choose between offering a low-cost screening test to a whole population (“equal access”) or a more sensitive, expensive test that could be given to only half of the population but resulting in 10% more avoided deaths (“efficien… Show more
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