Patients often do not receive recommended treatments and procedures.
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Patients often do not receive recommended treatments and procedures.
Multispecialty expert physician study: During a 3-year period, Medicare beneficiaries received certain recommended services less than two-thirds of the time. Services were for such conditions as heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, and stroke, among others.
Despite the proven life-saving efficacy of beta blockers for most heart attack patients, researchers estimate that at least half of these patients do not receive this therapy.
