ACP MKSAP 17: General Internal Medicine

Description

An economically unsustainable amount of money is spent on health care in the united States – 18% of the U.S. gross domestic product leaving less money to pay for other essential services such as public health and safety, infrastructure, and education. Despite spending more on health care than any other country, the United States has health outcomes, including mortality, survival, and life expectancy, that rank at or near the bottom when compared with other high-income countries. High value care is care that balances the clinical benefit of a given medical intervention with its harms and costs, with the goal of improving patient outcomes. High value care represents a paradigm shift away from the belief that more care is better care toward the idea that evidence-based, individualized care is better care.