Reducing Low-Value Care: Uncertainty as Crucial Cross-Cutting Theme; Comment on "Key Factors That Promote Low-Value Care: Views of Experts From the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands"
Low-value care is increasingly recognized as a global problem that places strain on healthcare systems and has no quick fix. Verkerk et al have identified key factors promoting low-value care on a national level, proposed strategies to address these and create a healthcare system facilitating delive...
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Kerman University of Medical Sciences,
2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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| Summary: | Low-value care is increasingly recognized as a global problem that places strain on healthcare systems and has no quick fix. Verkerk et al have identified key factors promoting low-value care on a national level, proposed strategies to address these and create a healthcare system facilitating delivery of high-value care. In this commentary, we reflect on the results of Verkerk et al and argue that uncertainty has a crucial role when it comes to reducing low-value care. This uncertainty is reflected in lack of a shared view between stakeholders, with clear criteria and thresholds on what constitutes low-value care, and as cross-cutting theme related to the key factors identified. We suggest to work on such a shared view of low-value care and - different from implementation efforts - to explicitly address uncertainty and its driving cognitive biases grounded in human decision-making psychology, to reduce low-value care. |
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| Item Description: | 2322-5939 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7027 |