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Low-value care in Australian public hospitals: prevalence and trends over time

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  • Tim Badgery-Parker Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Health Market Quality Program, Capital Markets CRC, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sallie-Anne Pearson Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Medicines Policy Research Unit, Centre for Big Data Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kelsey Chalmers Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Health Market Quality Program, Capital Markets CRC, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jonathan Brett Medicines Policy Research Unit, Centre for Big Data Research in Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ian A Scott School of Clinical Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Department of Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Susan Dunn Activity Based Management, NSW Ministry of Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Neville Onley Activity Based Management, NSW Ministry of Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Adam G Elshaug Menzies Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Lown Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor Adam G Elshaug, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; elshaug{at}sydney.edu.au
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Badgery-Parker T, Pearson S, Chalmers K, et al
Low-value care in Australian public hospitals: prevalence and trends over time
BMJ Quality & Safety 2019;28:205-214.

Publication history

  • Received May 13, 2018
  • Revised June 26, 2018
  • Accepted July 17, 2018
  • First published August 6, 2018.
Online issue publication 
February 20, 2019

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