Metrics are required for diagnostic accuracy in acute medicine
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Brunel Whyte, Martin
Kelly, Philip
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2022
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The article by Subbe et al raise important considerations as to what is deemed quality care in medicine. Throughput in acute medicine is highly prized. Prompt decision making, and action, is certainly required for several groups of unwell patients, but there is system-wide pressure to maintain this fast pace for all patients. It does not automatically follow that quicker medicine benefits all patients to some degree. 'Productivity' may come at the cost of too much medicine - characterised by overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and substantial resource utilisation.
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Acute Medicine Journal
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21
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1