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

Objective: Health care overuse is pervasive in countries with advanced health care delivery
systems. We hypothesize that effective interventions to reduce low-value care that targets …

A ltruism, the promotion of another's self-interest at risk or cost to oneself, is at the core of
medical practice, tracing its roots all the way back to the Hippocratic Oath. First coined by …

Problem definition: Although in-kind donations contribute to charity's triple bottom line (ie,
generating additional revenue for the charity, contributing to social welfare, and reducing …

Introduction The health of a community depends on the health of its individuals; therefore,
individual health behaviour can implicitly affect the health of the entire community. This is …

Objective Comparative evaluations of innovations in hepatitis C virus (HCV) drug therapy
typically focus on sustained virologic response (SVR) without addressing psychological and …

The main preference is addressing the expenditure of healthcare, which increases in the
majority of developed countries. Overuse and unessential healthcare are one of the most …

OBJECTIVES: To know the frequency and causes of low value surgical practices, according
to the opinion of surgeons and anesthetists, and to determine their degree of knowledge …

This study investigates pro-environmental behavior (PEB) in Bhutan by using Theory of
Planned Behavior (TPB) and the Norm Activation Model (NAM). We conducted an online …

Purpose To test the null hypothesis that exposure to societal cost information does not affect
choice of treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Methods We enrolled 304 participants …