How to Reduce Overuse in Healthcare

Reduce low-value care with this practical guide

Low-value care harms patients, overburdens healthcare professionals, threatens healthcare systems and damages the climate. How to Reduce Overuse in Healthcare: a practical guide is designed to provide practical guidance and tools for healthcare providers, their professional societies and policy makers developing programs to de-implement low-value or unnecessary care. This guide provides a five-step evidence and theory-based framework for developing and evaluating programs such as Choosing Wisely to reduce low-value care and improve patient outcomes.

How to Reduce Overuse in Healthcare: a practical guide readers will also find:

• An author team involved in the leading Choosing Wisely international network
• Detailed analysis of how to identify potential low-value care areas, select interventions and more
• Practical, real-world examples at the end of each chapter illustrating examples of overuse and de-implementation

How to Reduce Overuse in Healthcare: a practical guide describes the state of the art in de-implementation for healthcare professionals, healthcare administrators and policy makers looking to reduce low-value care in a more effective and evidence-based way.

Tijn Kool, MD PhD, is Full Professor Appropriate Care at the Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Andrea M. Patey, PhD, is Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Implementation Research in the Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada.

Simone van Dulmen, PhD, is Senior Researcher in Appropriate and Sustainable Healthcare at the Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Jeremy M. Grimshaw, MBChB, PhD, Senior Scientist in the Centre for Implementation Research in the Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada.