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 projectsIntravenous and urinary catheters are a burden to the patient and provide risk of infection. Still, often catheters a...
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 moreA gastric endoscopy is often used to examine stomach complaints, but rarely a cause is identified. Moreover, this pro...
Read moreIn the Netherlands, MRIs and arthroscopies of the knee are still regularly performed in orthopedic patients ≥ 50 year...
Read morePatients that are treated for a basal cell carcinoma and are at low-risk for recurrence, do not need a routine follow...
Read moreThe use of ICS (inhaled corticosteroids) in COPD patients with less than 2 exacerbations per year is not recommended ...
Read moreInappropriate use of laboratory diagnostics is a well-known phenomenon in clinical practice. About 20% of the laborat...
Read moreDegenerative knee complaints without any alarming symptoms should be treated by the General Practitioner conservative...
Read moreIn recent years, the number of vitamin D and B12 tests in the general practice has increased, often without an indica...
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