📢 Call for Papers

Exploring low-value care and strategies to reduce unnecessary, ineffective or inefficient practices across critical care settings? This call is for you!

📖 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14785153/call-for-papers/si-2026-000889

#CallForPapers #LowValueCare

Dr. Liu & team found #telehealth use increased over time but how & if it affected #LowValueCare varied.

Why is this important? Low-value care not increasing with more telehealth may be reassuring to policymakers concerned about unnecessary or wasteful care.

🗞️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39509127/

#LowValueCare are services that provide little or no benefit to patients, have potential to cause harm, incur unnecessary cost to patients, or waste limited healthcare resources. While low value care has been widely studied, #telehealth's impact on it has not. #PittHSRseminar

Cutting low-value care may not save much money — but it reduces harm, raises quality, and makes health systems fairer.

Read more ➡️ shorturl.at/sAmQl
#LowValueCare
#CostSavings
#QualityofCare
#HealthPolicy

If the de-implementation process is supportive, staff will welcome this change rather than be upset by it.
#deimplementation #LowValueCare #NHS

Practices of low value or unnecessary practices in vascular prevention https://buff.ly/4h2cDFv #produccionhuil #Lowvaluecare #Cardiovasculardisease

The NUDG-ED trial suggests “one-size-fits-all” nudges aren’t enough in the ED.

To truly move the needle on #lowvaluecare, future approaches may require:

📊 Audit & feedback

🧾 Clinical decision aids

🎯 Personalised nudges and interventions

🏥 Stronger primary care pathways

Low-value care in the #ER - like non-indicated X-rays or take-home opioids - offers little benefit and exposes patients to harm while wasting billions in healthcare resources. In this Australian trial, 41.6% of patients with back pain received #lowvaluecare

🚨 New Research: The NUDG-ED trial, published in @CMAJ, found that behavioral #nudges were not enough to reduce #lowvaluecare for patients with #backpain in high-pressure #emergencycare settings 🏥

Read the study: doi.org/10.1503/cmaj...

#BehavioralEconomics #ChoosingWisely

Shoppers Drug Mart billed Ontario almost $62 million for medication reviews. Former store owner says program is being 'abused' - Toronto Star

#lowvaluecare

apple.news/AmQxA81zFQjG...

Instead of “med checks,” do meaningful drug review, incl #deprescribing: good for patients and cost saving

Relative importance and interactions of factors influencing low-value care provision: a factorial survey experiment among Swedish primary care physicians qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl... #lowvaluecare #overtreatment #overdiagnosis

What is it about certain patients that they seek #lowvaluecare ? A broad range of causes, from socio-economic and cultural context to emotional + biomedical factors contribute:

Factors associated with patients’ demand for low-value care: a scoping review link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Climate-responsive health systems should focus on efficient models of care and cutting up to 30% waste, amongst other things, suggest
@KlynnSmith3 @ChristinaVRojas @arpartington @YvonneZurynski @JBraithwaite1: #climatechange #lowvaluecare

https://doi.org/10.1111/imj.16528

As health systems come under increasing financial pressure, arbitrary cuts to 'backline' services can compound problems. There is huge value in creating time and space for people to collaborate on effective and efficient care, and to eliminate waste and #lowvaluecare. https://t.co/GgWugEB0sR

Does the US have unusually high levels of #LowValueCare relative to other OECD countries?