Research Conducted at Harvard Medical School Has Provided New Information about Managed Care (Stopping the Flood: Reducing Harmful Cascades of Care)

2021 JUN 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on Managed Care have been presented. According to news reporting from Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Cascades of care are common and can lead to significant harms for patients, clinicians, and the health care system at large. In this commentary, we argue that there are 2 ways to reduce cascades: decrease the use of unnecessary services that often initiate cascades (ie, close the floodgates) and mitigate cascades once they begin (ie, slow the flow through the floodgates).”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Harvard Medical School, “So far, most efforts to address cascades have focused on identifying, measuring, and educating clinicians on low-value services, with only modest success. We explore potential solutions for both closing the floodgates and slowing a cascade once the floodgates have been opened, including information to assist patients and clinicians in making better decisions, relationships that enable shared decision-making, and policy changes.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Ultimately, reducing cascades while maintaining our commitment to high-quality care requires equipping patients and clinicians with the information, tools, and support needed to embrace uncertainty.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Stopping the Flood: Reducing Harmful Cascades of Care. The American Journal of Managed Care, 2021;27(5):178-180. The American Journal of Managed Care can be contacted at: Managed Care & Healthcare Communications Llc, 666 Plainsboro Rd, Ste 300, Plainsboro, NJ 08536, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Ishani Ganguli, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, United States. Additional authors for this research include Pooja Chandrashekar and A. Mark Fendrick.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.37765/ajmc.2021.88630. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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