From Sick Care to Health Care — Reengineering Prevention into the U.S. System
- 6 September 2012
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 367 (10) , 889-891
Abstract
Flexner's acute care model remains securely embedded in the U.S. health care system. But given our chronic-disease epidemics, unsustainable costs, poor outcomes, frequent medical errors, and worsening health disparities, we must replace it with a prevention model.Keywords
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