Effectiveness of de-implementation of low-value healthcare practices: an overview of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reducing low-value care (LVC) is crucial to improve the quality of patient care while increasing the efficient use of scarce healthcare resources. Recently, strategies to de-implement LVC have been mapped against the Expert Recommendation for Implementing Change (ERIC) compilation of strategies. However, such strategies' effectiveness across different healthcare practices has not been addressed. This overview of systematic reviews aimed to investigate the effectiveness of de-implementation initiatives and specific ERIC strategy clusters.

Methods

We searched MEDLINE (Ovid), Epistemonikos.org and Scopus (Elsevier) from 1 January 2010 to 17 April 2023 and used additional search strategies to identify relevant systematic reviews (SRs). Two reviewers independently scre

SUBMITTER: Kien C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11299416 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature