Background A considerable proportion of interventions provided to patients lack evidence of
their effectiveness. This implies that patients may receive ineffective, unnecessary or even …

Background Many decisions regarding health resource utilization flow through the patient-
clinician interaction. Thus, it represents a place where de-implementation interventions may …

Background Overtreatment is a cause of preventable harm and waste in health care. Little is
known about clinician perspectives on the problem. In this study, physicians were surveyed …

Importance Overuse of medical tests and treatments is an increasingly recognized problem
across health systems; best practices for reducing overuse are not clear. Framing the …

During the last decade healthcare leaders, along with campaigns such as Choosing Wisely,
have called for major efforts to curb the high cost of healthcare by reducing unnecessary …

Background: Around the world, policies and interventions are used to encourage clinicians
to reduce low-value care. In order to facilitate this, we need a better understanding of the …

Background One kind of overutilization of diagnostic imaging is low-value imaging, ie,
imaging that does not lead to altered clinical pathways or improved health outcomes …

Objective General practitioners have an important role in reducing low-value care as
gatekeepers of the health system. The aim of this study was to assess the experiences of …

Together with physician specialty societies, the Choosing Wisely® campaign has codified
recommendations of which health care services' use should be questioned and discussed …

Aim The aim was (1) to explore organizational factors influencing the use of low-value care
(LVC) as perceived by primary care physicians and (2) to explore which organizational …