AHRQ WebM&M: Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web

AHRQ WebM&M: Morbidity and Mortality Rounds on the Web

Perspectives on Safety

Overuse as a Patient Safety Problem

INTERVIEW

In Conversation With… Rosemary Gibson, MSc
Ms. Gibson is Senior Advisor to The Hastings Center, an editor for JAMA Internal Medicine, and co-author of Wall of Silence andThe Treatment Trap. We spoke with her about overuse of medical care and its effect on patient safety.

Listen to an audio excerpt of the interview

(.MP3 | 9.1 MB)

PERSPECTIVE

Overuse as a Patient Safety Problem
by Christopher Moriates, MD
This piece describes the emergence of medical care overuse as a patient safety issue and relates efforts to change clinician behaviors to prevent overtreatment.