Identifying and de-implementing low-value care in primary care: the GP's perspective-a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

General practitioners have an important role in reducing low-value care as gatekeepers of the health system. The aim of this study was to assess the experiences of Dutch general practitioners regarding low-value care and to identify their needs to decrease low-value primary care.

Design

We performed a cross-sectional study.

Participants

We sent a survey to 500 general practitioners.

Setting

Primary care in the Netherlands.

Primary and secondary outcomes

The survey contained questions about the provision of low-value care and on clinical cases about lumbosacral spine X-rays in patients with low back pain and vitamin B₁₂ laboratory tests without an evidence-based indication. We also asked general practitioners what they needed to reduc

SUBMITTER: Kool RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7279641 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature