High value care for everyone by making well-informed decisions: should we perform a test, treatment or procedure or should we refrain from these?
All projectsThe use of opioids in the treatment of chronic pain has dramatically increased over the past years. Although the effe...
Read moreIn daily practice, uncomplicated urinary tract infections are often treated with antibiotics. While the infection hea...
Read moreUrinary catheters are placed regularly after pituitary and spondylodesis operations, without medical necessity. Urina...
Read moreDuring the last phase of life, the use of preventive medication is no longer useful. Continuation of this medication ...
Read moreAuscultation is still used to check the position of a feeding tube often, although this ineffective and unsafe. Measu...
Read moreCT scans are still a standard part of the follow-up of patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, although it is not recom...
Read moreIntravenous and urinary catheters are a burden to the patient and provide risk of infection. Still, often catheters a...
Read moreA gastric endoscopy is often used to examine stomach complaints, but rarely a cause is identified. Moreover, this pro...
Read morePatients that are treated for a basal cell carcinoma and are at low-risk for recurrence, do not need a routine follow...
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