Measuring Hospital-Acquired Complications Associated With Low-Value Care
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DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.7464
Abstract: Importance Studies of low-value care have focused on the prevalence of low-value care interventions but have rarely quantified downstream consequences of these interventions for patients or the health care system. Objective To measure immediate in-hospital… read more here.
Keywords: low value; value care; hospital; associated low ... See more keywords
Low-Value Care at the Actionable Level of Individual Health Systems.
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DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.5531
Abstract: Importance Low-value health care remains prevalent in the US despite decades of work to measure and reduce such care. Efforts have been only modestly effective in part because the measurement of low-value care has largely… read more here.
Keywords: low value; health systems; value care; value ... See more keywords
Variation in and Hospital Characteristics Associated With the Value of Care for Medicare Beneficiaries With Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia
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DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.3519
Abstract: Key Points Questions What is the variation in the value of care for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia, and what hospital characteristics are associated with high-value care? Findings Among hospitals and patients in… read more here.
Keywords: value care; myocardial infarction; infarction heart; value ... See more keywords
Surgical Low-Value Care Between Fee-For-Service and Salaried Health Care Systems
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DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.46213
Abstract: Key Points Question Is a health care system’s reimbursement model associated with provision of low-value surgical care? Findings This cohort study including 304 908 procedures identified significant differences in the use of low-value care in a… read more here.
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Improving healthcare value: Lessons learned from the first decade of Choosing Wisely®
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DOI: 10.1002/jhm.12969
Abstract: Low‐value care threatened the sustainability of healthcare even before the COVID‐19 pandemic with up to 30% of care estimated to be wasteful—meaning it does not add value and may even be harmful to patients. The… read more here.
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Low-value care and variation in practice in the care of children hospitalized with bronchiolitis in Canada (CareBEST): Protocol for a multi-center prospective cohort study.
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DOI: 10.1002/jhm.70219
Abstract: INTRODUCTION Low-value care refers to health services for which the potential harms or costs outweigh the benefits of use. Bronchiolitis is the most common and among the most costly causes of pediatric hospitalizations. Evidence consistently… read more here.
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Interventions to reduce low-value care in intensive care settings: a scoping review of impacts on health, resource use, costs, and the environment
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DOI: 10.1007/s00134-024-07670-7
Abstract: Low-value care is common in intensive care units (ICUs), unnecessarily exposing patients to risks and harms, incuring costs to the patient and healthcare system, and contributing to healthcare’s carbon footprint. We aimed to identify, collate,… read more here.
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Digital health & low-value care.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2021.100533
Abstract: Digital health advances offer a multitude of possibilities to improve public health and individual wellbeing. Little attention has been paid, however, to digital health's potential to create low-value care - the reduction of which is… read more here.
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Low-value care in nursing: A systematic assessment of clinical practice guidelines.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2018.07.002
Abstract: BACKGROUND Low-value care provides little or no benefit to the patient, causes harm and wastes limited resources. Reducing it is therefore important for safer and more sustainable care. OBJECTIVES We systematically assessed nursing low-value care… read more here.
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Limit, lean or listen? A typology of low-value care that gives direction in de-implementation
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DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzy100
Abstract: Abstract Background Overuse of unnecessary care is widespread around the world. This so-called low-value care provides no benefit for the patient, wastes resources and can cause harm. The concept of low-value care is broad and… read more here.
Keywords: low value; value care; implementation; typology ... See more keywords
Postoperative Overtriage to an Intensive Care Unit Is Associated With Low Value of Care
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DOI: 10.1097/sla.0000000000005460
Abstract: Objective: We test the hypothesis that for low-acuity surgical patients, postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) admission is associated with lower value of care compared with ward admission. Background: Overtriaging low-acuity patients to ICU consumes valuable… read more here.
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