All Articles on Low-value Care
How to become a clinical value championKPWHRI’s MacColl Center launches online training to help clinicians identify and curb overused services in clinical practice.
Clinical fellows launch 6 projects to reduce medical overuseA new program aims to reduce unnecessary care for vulnerable patients such as back pain imaging, opioid use, and more.
6 Value Champions begin tackling medical overuse in the safety netNew training and mentorship program supports clinicians in doing less of what harms and more of what helps vulnerable patients.
10 ways we made a healthier world in 2018Kaiser Permanente Washington research tackled problems like obesity, suicide—and care that doesn’t promote health
Start making sense: Taking Action on OveruseMacColl and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation help providers and patients hold hard conversations to curb habits of too much testing and treatment.
Stop! In the name of health—lessening low-value careMacColl engages teams to ‘de-implement’ needless tests and treatments, doing less overused low-value care that might harm patients.
What’s next for Choosing Wisely?A new report called Promoting the Appropriate Use of Health Care Services sets research and policy priorities for efforts to give Americans the care they need—no more, no less. Those efforts to reduce low-value care include the Choosing Wisely® initiative.
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