Table 1 General characteristics of the included articles (n = 23)
From: Are low-value care measures up to the task? A systematic review of the literature
First author | Year of publication | Country | Aim | Method | Number retrieved | Recommendation initiative | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Measuresa | Recommendations | ||||||
AGS Choosing Wisely AGSCW Workgroup [7] | 2013 | US | To identify five services that physicians and patients should question. | Review + Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
AGS Choosing Wisely Workgroup [34] | 2014 | US | To identify another five services that physicians and patients should question. | Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
Amos [35] | 2015 | US | To determine the prevalence of PIMs for older adults in Elimia-Romagna, Italy, using updated Maio criteria. | Empirical analysis | 0 | 16 | Other |
Bulger [36] | 2013 | US | To identify five services that physicians and patients should question. | Review + Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
Chan [18] | 2013 | US | To describe and critique the current state of overuse measurement. | Review | 37 | 122 | Other |
Colla [8] | 2015 | US | To develop claims-based algorithms to estimate the prevalence of Choosing Wisely services and to examine the demographic, health and health care system correlates of low-value care at a regional level. | Empirical analysis | 11 | 0 | N.A. |
Elshaug [37] | 2012 | AUS | To develop and apply a novel method for scanning a range of sources to identify existing health care services (excluding pharmaceuticals) that have questionable benefit, and produce a list that warrant further investigation. | Review | 0 | 174 | Other |
Halpern [38] | 2014 | US | To present the Critical Care Societies Collaborative top 5 list in Critical Care Medicine and describe its development. | Review + Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
Hicks [39] | 2013 | US | To identify five services that physicians and patients should question. | Review + Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
Kale [26] | 2013 | US | The objective of this study was to determine whether the overuse and misuse of health care services in the ambulatory setting has decreased in the past decade. | Empirical analysis | 13 | 0 | N.A. |
Keyhani [40] | 2013 | US | To compare rates of overuse in different health care systems and examine whether certain systems of care or insurers have lower rates of overuse of health care services. | Systematic review | 0 | 7 | Other |
Korenstein [41] | 2012 | US | To perform an extensive search for studies of overuse of therapeutic procedures, diagnostic tests, and medications in the United States and describe the state of the literature. | Extensive search | 0 | 33 | Other |
Mathias [10] | 2012 | US | To characterize performance on imaging-use measures, determine whether performance was consistent across measures, and identify hospital characteristics associated with highest-decile imaging use. | Empirical analysis | 4 | 0 | N.A. |
Morden [11] | 2014 | US | To measure the prevalence and describe the geographic variation of short-interval (repeated in under 2 years) DXAs among Medicare beneficiaries and estimated the cost of this testing and its responsiveness to payment change. | Empirical analysis | 4 | 0 | N.A. |
Onuoha [42] | 2014 | US | To develop a top 5 list of unnecessary medical services in anesthesiology. | Review + Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
Quinonez [43] | 2013 | US | To produce top 5 lists. | Review + Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
Rouster-Stevens [44] | 2014 | US | To create a pediatric rheumatology Top 5 list as part of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Choosing Wisely campaign. | Review + Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
Schuur [45] | 2014 | US | To create a top-five list of tests, treatments, and disposition decisions that are of little value, are amenable to standardization, and are actionable by emergency medicine clinicians. | Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
Schwartz [2] | 2014 | US | To develop claims-based measures of low-value services, examine service use (and associated spending) detected by these measures in Medicare, and determine whether patterns of use are related across different types of low-value services. | Empirical analysis | 26 | 0 | N.A. |
Segal [19] | 2014 | US | To identify a set of possible indicators of overuse that can be operationalized with claims data and to describe variation in these indicators across the hospital referral regions (HRRs). | Empirical analysis | 20 | 0 | N.A. |
Wiener [46] | 2014 | US | To create a top 5 list. | Review + Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
Williams [47] | 2012 | US | To present the final five Choosing Wisely Don’t do recommendations, the rationale for these specific recommendations, and two other recommendations. | Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |
Wood [48] | 2013 | US | To report on the CW top 5 list. | Review + Delphi/consensus | 0 | 5 | CW |