日本では,低コストで大量の医療サービスが,低価値医療による不必要な医療費に最も寄与しています
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
|September 5, 2025
まとめ
低コストの医療サービスが 日本で不必要な医療費を 引き起こすのです 高コストの医療サービスではありません 頻繁で低コストな介入に 焦点を当てれば 浪費を効率的に削減できます
科学分野:
- 健康 経済
- 医療政策
- 臨床サービス 研究
背景:
- 医療費の上昇は 日本のような高所得国において 低価格の医療費を削減する戦略を 求めています
- 米国以外で不必要な医療費に最も寄与する低価格の医療サービスに関する証拠は限られている.
研究 の 目的:
- 日本における不必要な医療費に対する様々な低価値医療サービスの貢献を特定し,定量化する.
- 低コストの医療サービスと高コストの医療サービスが 医療費全体に与える影響を比較する.
主な方法:
- 横断的な研究では,2022年4月から2023年3月の間に,日本の人口の約2% (1,923,484人の受益者) の請求データを分析した.
- 52の低価値の介護サービスが特定され,コスト (非常に低い,低い,中等,高い) によって分類され,より広範で狭い定義を使用して分析されました.
- これらのサービスに関連する医療費は全国的に計算され,推計された.
主要な成果:
- 受益者の3分の1以上 (36~40%) が少なくとも1つの低額医療サービスを受けており,全国の医療費の0.7~1.0%を占めています.
- 低価値ケアエピソードの99%以上が非常に低コストまたは低コストのサービスでした.
- これらの低コストサービスは不必要な医療費の67%を占め,中高コストサービス (33%) よりもはるかに多い.
結論:
- 低コストで頻繁に利用される低価値の医療サービスは,日本における不必要な医療費の主要な要因です.
- 医療費の浪費を抑えるには 高額な介入にのみ焦点を当てることよりも 低コストで頻繁に行われるこれらのサービスの削減を ターゲットにすることがより効果的な戦略です
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