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@article{ART002152426},
author={Cheong Yooseok and Park Seok Gun},
title={What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment},
journal={Korean Journal of Medical Ethics },
issn={2005-8284},
year={2016},
volume={19},
number={3},
pages={375-389},
doi={10.35301/ksme.2016.19.3.375}

TY - JOUR
AU - Cheong Yooseok
AU - Park Seok Gun
TI - What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment
JO - Korean Journal of Medical Ethics
PY - 2016
VL - 19
IS - 3
PB - The Korean Society For Medical Ethics
SP - 375
EP - 389
SN - 2005-8284
AB - Overtreatment (or unnecessary treatment) occurs when medical services are provided with a higher volume or cost than is appropriate. Of course, practicing good medicine and avoiding unnecessary harm have always been principles of medical practice. Currently there is a new emphasis on reducing practices that are likely to have limited benefit or that involve potential harm. Waste due to overtreatment has been described as a violation of the principle of justice on the assumption that every system has limited resources and any wasted resource necessarily means those resources will no longer be available for use by others in need. Overtreatment may also cause direct harm to patients, thus violating the principle of nonmaleficence. Physicians are rarely motivated by the desire to achieve system efficiency or to save money for its own sake. However, it is widely understood that physicians should be motivated by a desire to do the right thing in terms of promoting the patient’s best interest. And doing the right thing includes an ethical imperative to provide parsimonious care. Recognizing this fact helps to bridge the enormous quality chasm that still exists between the medical care that is currently provided and the medical care that should be provided. The purpose of this study is to identify and assess the factors that cause overtreatment (unnecessary treatment) in the Korean medical system and to suggest certain solutions to this problem.
KW - overtreatment;overscreening;overdiagnosis;professionalism;incentives;pay-for-performance
DO - 10.35301/ksme.2016.19.3.375
ER -

Cheong Yooseok and Park Seok Gun. (2016). What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment. Korean Journal of Medical Ethics , 19(3), 375-389.

Cheong Yooseok and Park Seok Gun. 2016, "What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment", Korean Journal of Medical Ethics , vol.19, no.3 pp.375-389. Available from: doi:10.35301/ksme.2016.19.3.375

Cheong Yooseok, Park Seok Gun "What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment" Korean Journal of Medical Ethics 19.3 pp.375-389 (2016) : 375.

Cheong Yooseok, Park Seok Gun. What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment. 2016; 19(3), 375-389. Available from: doi:10.35301/ksme.2016.19.3.375

Cheong Yooseok and Park Seok Gun. "What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment" Korean Journal of Medical Ethics 19, no.3 (2016) : 375-389.doi: 10.35301/ksme.2016.19.3.375

Cheong Yooseok; Park Seok Gun. What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment. Korean Journal of Medical Ethics , 19(3), 375-389. doi: 10.35301/ksme.2016.19.3.375

Cheong Yooseok; Park Seok Gun. What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment. Korean Journal of Medical Ethics . 2016; 19(3) 375-389. doi: 10.35301/ksme.2016.19.3.375

Cheong Yooseok, Park Seok Gun. What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment. 2016; 19(3), 375-389. Available from: doi:10.35301/ksme.2016.19.3.375

Cheong Yooseok and Park Seok Gun. "What Factors Promote Overtreatment in Korea?: Causative Considerations and Solutions to Overtreatment" Korean Journal of Medical Ethics 19, no.3 (2016) : 375-389.doi: 10.35301/ksme.2016.19.3.375