Causes,Damages and Strategies of Excessive Medical Treatment

Excessive medical treatment is an irregular action that violates the principle of medical diagnosis and treatment,impedes medical development and influence the benefits of patients.The occurrence of excessive medical treatment lies in many factors,such as pursuing the economic returns unilaterally,falling into profit temptation of medical supplies,inadequate supervising of the government,lacking identical medical information between patients and clinical agencies,defensive medicine and some patients' special requirements,etc.Excessive medical treatment not only endanger the interests of patients,affecting the doctor-patient relationship,resulting in the waste of medical resources,but also damage the image of medical workers,violating the professional ethics.Thus,excessive medical treatment will be controlled effectively in medical staff by some measures,including strengthening supervision and professional moral education,carrying out clinical pathway so as to standardize diagnosis and treatment,enacting scientific and reasonable mechanism of evaluation of performance and stimulation.