Background While calls for institutionalization of evidence-informed policy-making (EIP)
have become stronger in recent years, there is a paucity of methods that governments and …

Background/aims Considerable efforts have been made to improve guideline adherence in
healthcare through de-implementation, such as decreasing the prescription of inappropriate …

Monitoring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 requires the
global community to disaggregate targets along socio-economic lines, but little has been …

Choosing Wisely (CW) campaigns globally have focused attention on the need to reduce
low-value care, which can represent up to 30% of the costs of healthcare. Despite early …

Due to their rapid expansion and complexity, it is increasingly difficult for patients to orient
themselves in health care systems. Therefore, patients require a high degree of health …

Background Increasingly, scholars argue that de-implementation is a distinct concept from
implementation; factors contributing to stopping a current practice might be distinct from …

Background Public health systems internationally are under pressure to meet increasing
demand for healthcare in the context of increasing financial resource constraint. There is …

Importance Medical overuse is an important cause of patient harm and medical waste.
Observation This structured literature review of English-language articles supplemented by …

Low-value care refers to tests or treatments for which there is little evidence of benefit or
more harm than benefit, which can result in poor patient outcomes such as unwarranted …

Introduction: As demand for healthcare continues to grow, public health systems are
increasingly required to drive efficiency improvement (EI) to address public service funding …