The physician's role in controlling health care costs.
Choices about referrals, tests, and prescriptions offer physicians many opportunities to reduce health care costs. Some commonsense measures are described, and the principles to which cost-effectiveness analyses should adhere are explained.
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Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Medical Center, Bedford, Mass, USA.
D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000191:economics; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D013810:Therapeutic Equivalency