How to Reduce Overuse in Healthcare - by Tijn Kool & Andrea M Patey & Simone Van Dulmen & Jeremy M Grimshaw (Paperback)

About the Book

"Low-value care refers to care that is not proven to provide benefits to patients or where benefits are small in relation to its harms and costs compared to alternatives (including doing nothing) and do not address patients' preferences. Over the last two decades, we have seen increasing global recognition of the existence of low-value care and its negative consequences. These include (direct and indirect) patient harms, unnecessary workload for hard pressed healthcare professionals, wasted healthcare resources and negative impacts on the climate. Low-value care may relate to both overdiagnosis and overtreatment. We are faced with major challenges such as demographic changes in societies globally with an increase in the elderly who often require healthcare, advances in biomedical discoveries that offer new therapeutic opportunities (but nearly always at increased costs) and human health resources challenges. There is an urgent need to address these challenges to protect patients, healthcare professionals and systems, and the planet"--

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

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.