Physician Assessment and Feedback During Quality Circle to Reduce Low-Value Services in Outpatients: a Pre-Post Quality Improvement Study.
Omar KheradKevin SelbyMyriam MartelHenrique da CostaYann VettardPhilippe SchallerMarc-André RaetzoPublished in: Journal of general internal medicine (2021)
Our results demonstrate a modest but statistically significant effect of QCs with educative feedback in reducing low-value services in outpatients with low impact on coefficient of variation. Limiting overuse in medicine is very challenging and dedicated discussion and real-time review of actionable data may help.