Importance Inaccurate clinician expectations of the benefits and harms of interventions can
profoundly influence decision making and may be contributing to increasing intervention …

Overuse, which is defined as the provision of medical services that are more likely to cause
harm than good, is a pervasive problem. Direct measurement of overuse through …

Importance Accurate diagnosis is essential to proper patient care. Objective To explore
practitioner understanding of diagnostic reasoning. Design, Setting, and Participants In this …

Overdiagnosis, is defined as the diagnosis of a condition that, if unrecognized, would not
cause symptoms or harm a patient during his or her lifetime, and it is increasingly …

Background Reduction or elimination of inappropriate, ineffective, or potentially harmful
healthcare services and public health programs can help to ensure limited resources are …

Avoiding low value care received increasing attention in many countries, as with the
Choosing Wisely campaign and other initiatives to abandon care that wastes resources or …

Financialization is promoted by alliances of multilateral 'development'organizations, national
governments and owners and institutions of private capital. In the healthcare sector, the …

Objective To provide guiding principles and recommendations for how approaches from the
field of dissemination and implementation (D&I) science can advance healthcare equity …

In our collective enthusiasm to diagnose and treat disease, a growing body of evidence
indicates that we may often be doing too much of a good thing. 1-5 “Overdiagnosis” is now …

Importance Overuse of medical tests and treatments is an increasingly recognized problem
across health systems; best practices for reducing overuse are not clear. Framing the …