Potential Avoidable Costs of Low-Value Clinical Practices in Acute Injury Care in an Integrated Canadian Provincial Trauma System

Blanchard Conombo; Jason R Guertin; Jeffrey S Hoch; François Lauzier; Alexis F Turgeon; Henry T Stelfox; Lynne Moore

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2023.2510

Potential Avoidable Costs of Low-Value Clinical Practices in Acute Injury Care in an Integrated Canadian Provincial Trauma System

JAMA Surg. 2023 Sep 1;158(9):977-979. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.2510.

Authors

Blanchard Conombo^{1

2}, Jason R Guertin^{1

2}, Jeffrey S Hoch³, François Lauzier^{2

4}, Alexis F Turgeon^{2

4}, Henry T Stelfox⁵, Lynne Moore^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada.
² Population Health and Optimal Health Practices Research Unit, Trauma-Emergency-Critical Care Medicine, Centre de Recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada.
³ Division of Health Policy and Management, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California at Davis, Davis.
⁴ Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec, Canada.
⁵ Department of Critical Care Medicine, Medicine and Community Health Sciences, O'Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This economic evaluation estimated the direct health care costs associated with 11 low-value clinical practices in acute trauma care in the integrated health care system of Quebec, Canada.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Canada
Costs and Cost Analysis
Health Care Costs*
Humans