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Here at the Zimmer Medical Group we practice the same High Value Care initiatives that is also followed by the American College of Physicians.
The core mission values aims to improve health, avoid harms, and eliminate wasteful practices.
The following information in High Value Care is taught by the American College of Physicians and we are proud to implement the following into our own practice in order to best serve you as a patient.
Clinical guidelines address screening, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases relevant to internal medicine and its subspecialties. They are based on a systematic review of the available evidence. A systematic review is a critical assessment and evaluation of all research studies that address a particular clinical issue.
Guidance statements address screening, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases relevant to internal medicine and its subspecialties. They involve a review and methodological critique of existing and sometimes conflicting guidelines rather than a systematic review of available evidence.
Best practice advice papers are developed by ACP’s High Value Care Task Force to address the value of diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions for various diseases. They are based on an evaluation of the benefits, harms, and costs of a test or treatment and how this can be translated into the value of an intervention. Establishing this balance ensures effective delivery of high value care. Value is not merely cost. Some expensive tests and treatments have high value because they provide high benefit and low harm. Conversely, some inexpensive tests or treatments have low value because they do not provide enough benefit to justify even their low costs and might even be harmful.
ACP Practice Points provide advice to improve the health of individuals and populations and promote high value care based on the best available evidence derived from assessment of scientific work (e.g. guidelines, systematic reviews, individual studies). ACP Practice Points aim to address the value of screening and diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions for various diseases, and consider the determinants of health, including but not limited to genetic variability, environment, and lifestyle.
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