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Editor's Note: Developing Methods for Less is More
In a related editor's note, JAMA Internal Medicine deputy editor Mitchell H. Katz, M.D., and colleagues write: "This article highlights the opportunity for eliminating unnecessary care, and we hope that others will use and improve the methods developed by the authors. Most important, we hope that development of better measures of low-value care will ultimately spur development of interventions to reduce unnecessary care."
( JAMA Intern Med . Published online May 12, 2014. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.1541. Available pre-embargo to the media at http://media.jamanetwork.com .)
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The authors made conflict of interest disclosures. This work was supported by a variety of grants from different funding sources. Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc.
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