Current opinion in ophthalmology
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To update concepts in Value-Based Medicine, especially in view of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. ⋯ Value-Based Medicine provides a standardized methodology, integrating critical, patient, quality-of-life preferences, and societal costs, to allow the highest quality, most cost-effective care. Central to Value-Based Medicine is the concept that all patients deserve the interventions that provide the greatest patient value (improvement in quality of life and/or length of life).