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Gatekeeping

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Gatekeeping
The matching of patients’ needs and preferences with the judicious use of medical services. The term is controversial because of its connotation as a menial, bureaucratic function of controlling access to high-cost medical services, a meaning that portrays the physician as the agent of the third-party payers, not the patient

gatekeeping
An activity that '…has come to imply the medically limited and bureaucratic function of opening or closing the gate to high-cost medical services. This simplistic view …is controversial, both because of its menial connotation and because of the implication that the physician is the agent of the third-party payers, not the patient. The more politically correct way to define gatekeeping is '… matching patients' needs and preferences with the judicious use of medical services.'


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