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Descriptor English: Low-Value Care
Descriptor Spanish: Atención de Bajo Valor
Descriptor atención de bajo valor
Scope note: Servicios médicos, incluidos procedimientos y pruebas, que no deben realizarse debido a su potencial para causar daño o a la existencia de otras opciones de eficacia similar y, a menudo, más baratas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cuidados de Baixo Valor
Descriptor French: Soins de faible valeur
Entry term(s): Care, Low-Value
Low Value Care
Tree number(s): N03.219.151.725
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000090222
Scope note: Medical services, including tests and procedures, that should not be performed given their potential for harm or the existence of comparably effective and often less expensive alternatives.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 2022
History Note: 2022
DeCS ID: 59781
Unique ID: D000090222
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Date Established: 2022/01/01
Date of Entry: 2021/07/09
Revision Date: 2021/07/06
Low-Value Care - Preferred
Concept UI M000745725
Scope note Medical services, including tests and procedures, that should not be performed given their potential for harm or the existence of comparably effective and often less expensive alternatives.
Preferred term Low-Value Care
Entry term(s) Care, Low-Value
Low Value Care



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