Key Factors that Promote Low-Value Care: Views of Experts From the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands

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Key Factors that Promote Low-Value Care: Views of Experts From the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands

Around the world, policies and interventions are used to encourage clinicians to reduce low- value care. In order to facilitate this, we need a better understanding of the factors that lead to low-value care. We aimed to identify the key factors affecting low-value care on a national level. In addition, we highlight differences and similarities in three countries.

Read the full article ‘Key Factors that Promote Low-Value Care: Views of Experts From the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands’ by
Eva W Verkerk, Simone A Van Dulmen, Karen Born, Reshma Gupta, Gert P Westert and Rudolf B Kool in the International Journal of Health policy and Management, 2021, 1–8.

This article also gave rise to the following commentaries:

Context, Culture, and the Complexity of De-Implementing Low-Value Care
Comment 1 on ‘Key Factors that Promote Low-Value Care: Views of Experts From the United  States, Canada, and the Netherlands’
Emma E. Sypes, Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Henry T. Stelfox, Daniel J. Niven
Int J Health Policy Manag 2022, x(x), 1–3

Overview of the Drivers of Low-Value Care
Comment 2 on “Key Factors that Promote Low-Value Care: Views of Experts From the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands”
Joshua R. Zadro, Christopher G. Maher.
Int J Health Policy Manag 2022, x(x), 1–4

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”
Leti van Bodegom-Vos en Perla Marang-van de Mheen
Int J Health Policy Manag 2022, x(x), 1–3

Tools to Reduce Low-Value Care: Lessons From COVID-19 Pandemic
Comment on “Key Factors that Promote Low-Value Care: Views of Experts From the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands”.
Luis Corral-Gudino.
Int J Health Policy Manag 2022, x(x), 1–3.

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