De-implementing wisely: developing the evidence base to reduce low-value care.

Grimshaw JM, Patey AM, Kirkham KR, Hall A, Dowling SK, Rodondi N, Ellen M, Kool T, van Dulmen SA, Kerr EA, Linklater S, Levinson W, Bhatia RS. De-implementing wisely: developing the evidence base to reduce low-value care. BMJ quality & safety. 2020 May 1; 29(5):409-417.

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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 enthusiasm for the CW initiative, few large-scale changes in rates of low-value care have been reported since the launch of these campaigns. Recent commentaries suggest that the focus of the campaign should be on implementation of evidence-based strategies to effectively reduce low-value care. This paper describes the Choosing Wisely De-Implementation Framework (CWDIF), a novel framework that builds on previous work in the field of implementation science and proposes a comprehensive approach to systematically reduce low-value care in both hospital and community settings and advance the science of de-implementation.The CWDIF consists of five phases: , identification of potential areas of low-value healthcare; , identification of local priorities for implementation of CW recommendations; , identification of barriers to implementing CW recommendations and potential interventions to overcome these; , rigorous evaluations of CW implementation programmes; , spread of effective CW implementation programmes. We provide a worked example of applying the CWDIF to develop and evaluate an implementation programme to reduce unnecessary preoperative testing in healthy patients undergoing low-risk surgeries and to further develop the evidence base to reduce low-value care.