# Healthcare cost, quality, practices

**Type:** Topics  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/topics/healthcare-cost-quality-practices/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Description | This cluster of papers focuses on strategies and initiatives aimed at reducing the overuse of low-value health care services, particularly in the United States. It explores the concept of 'Choosing Wisely' and addresses issues related to health care waste, physician perspectives, de-implementation of unnecessary practices, and the impact on health care costs. The cluster also emphasizes the importance of patient engagement and quality improvement efforts in addressing this issue. |
| Domain | Health Sciences |
| Field | Health Professions |
| OpenAlex ID | t13555 |
| Works | 207 |

## Topic papers all

Showing 15 of 207.

- [The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-cochrane-collaboration-s-tool-for-assessing-risk-of-bias-in-randomised/)
- [Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies](https://scholariq.org/papers/strengthening-the-reporting-of-observational-studies-in-epidemiology-strobe-2/)
- [KDIGO 2024 Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Chronic Kidney Disease](https://scholariq.org/papers/kdigo-2024-clinical-practice-guideline-for-the-evaluation-and-management-of/)
- [What is “quality of evidence” and why is it important to clinicians?](https://scholariq.org/papers/what-is-quality-of-evidence-and-why-is-it-important-to-clinicians/)
- [GRADE guidelines: A new series of articles in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology](https://scholariq.org/papers/grade-guidelines-a-new-series-of-articles-in-the-journal-of-clinical/)
- [Aging with multimorbidity: A systematic review of the literature](https://scholariq.org/papers/aging-with-multimorbidity-a-systematic-review-of-the-literature/)
- [Recommendations for Conduct, Methodological Practices, and Reporting of Cost-effectiveness Analyses](https://scholariq.org/papers/recommendations-for-conduct-methodological-practices-and-reporting-of-cost/)
- [Updating Cost-Effectiveness — The Curious Resilience of the $50,000-per-QALY Threshold](https://scholariq.org/papers/updating-cost-effectiveness-the-curious-resilience-of-the-50-000-per-qaly/)
- [KDOQI US Commentary on the 2012 KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of CKD](https://scholariq.org/papers/kdoqi-us-commentary-on-the-2012-kdigo-clinical-practice-guideline-for-the/)
- [Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS) statement](https://scholariq.org/papers/consolidated-health-economic-evaluation-reporting-standards-cheers-statement/)
- [Discrimination and Calibration of Clinical Prediction Models](https://scholariq.org/papers/discrimination-and-calibration-of-clinical-prediction-models/)
- [The Swedish cause of death register](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-swedish-cause-of-death-register/)
- [Designing and evaluating complex interventions to improve health care](https://scholariq.org/papers/designing-and-evaluating-complex-interventions-to-improve-health-care/)
- [Defining clinically meaningful change in health-related quality of life](https://scholariq.org/papers/defining-clinically-meaningful-change-in-health-related-quality-of-life/)
- [GRADE Evidence to Decision (EtD) frameworks: a systematic and transparent approach to making well informed healthcare choices. 1: Introduction](https://scholariq.org/papers/grade-evidence-to-decision-etd-frameworks-a-systematic-and-transparent-approach/)

## Topic primary papers

Showing 15 of 18.

- [Chronic kidney disease and the global public health agenda: an international consensus](https://scholariq.org/papers/chronic-kidney-disease-and-the-global-public-health-agenda-an-international/)
- [Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019](https://scholariq.org/papers/five-insights-from-the-global-burden-of-disease-study-2019/)
- [Recruitment of adults 65 years and older as participants in the cardiovascular health study](https://scholariq.org/papers/recruitment-of-adults-65-years-and-older-as-participants-in-the-cardiovascular/)
- [Overtreatment in the United States](https://scholariq.org/papers/overtreatment-in-the-united-states/)
- [Uncertainty and COVID-19: how are we to respond?](https://scholariq.org/papers/uncertainty-and-covid-19-how-are-we-to-respond/)
- [Implementation and de-implementation: two sides of the same coin?](https://scholariq.org/papers/implementation-and-de-implementation-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/)
- [Awareness of Chronic Kidney Disease Among Patients and Providers](https://scholariq.org/papers/awareness-of-chronic-kidney-disease-among-patients-and-providers/)
- [Vital Directions for Health and Health Care](https://scholariq.org/papers/vital-directions-for-health-and-health-care/)
- [A Systemic Approach to Containing Health Care Spending](https://scholariq.org/papers/a-systemic-approach-to-containing-health-care-spending/)
- [Grenzen der Sinnhaftigkeit von Intensivmedizin](https://scholariq.org/papers/grenzen-der-sinnhaftigkeit-von-intensivmedizin/)
- [Opinion: redefining the role of the physician in laboratory medicine in the context of emerging technologies, personalised medicine and patient autonomy (‘4P medicine’)](https://scholariq.org/papers/opinion-redefining-the-role-of-the-physician-in-laboratory-medicine-in-the/)
- [The challenge of implementing Less is More medicine: A European perspective](https://scholariq.org/papers/the-challenge-of-implementing-less-is-more-medicine-a-european-perspective/)
- [Regional Supply of Medical Resources and Systemic Overuse of Health Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries](https://scholariq.org/papers/regional-supply-of-medical-resources-and-systemic-overuse-of-health-care-among/)
- [Overuse of medical care in paediatrics: A survey from five countries in the European Academy of Pediatrics](https://scholariq.org/papers/overuse-of-medical-care-in-paediatrics-a-survey-from-five-countries-in-the/)
- [General Internal Medicine](https://scholariq.org/papers/general-internal-medicine/)

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