Literature

Enhancing High Value Care in Gastroenterology Practice. Value, Access, and Cost of Cancer Care Delivery at Academic Cancer Centers. Choosing wisely in adult hospital medicine: five opportunities for improved healthcare value. Cutting the Cost of Health Care: The...

A commitment to high-value care education from the internal medicine community. Teaching high-value, cost-conscious care to residents: the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine–American College of Physicians Curriculum. Role Modeling and Regional Health Care...

Using Behavioral Economics to Design Physician Incentives That Deliver High-Value Care Professional organizations’ role in supporting physicians to improve value in health care. Provider cost transparency alone has no impact on inpatient imaging utilization. Better...

Admissions Shared decision making in patients with low risk chest pain: prospective randomized pragmatic trial Cost analysis of the History, ECG, Age, Risk factors, and initial Troponin (HEART) Pathway randomized control trial Readmissions Proportion and Cost of...

Red Blood Cells Clinical Decision Support Reduces Overuse of Red Blood Cell Transfusions: Interrupted Time Series Analysis Transfusion of Red Blood Cells (Clinical Practice Guidelines) Clinical Practice Guidelines From the AABB Red Blood Cell Transfusion Thresholds...

Procedures Hospital resources are associated with value-based surgical performance. A perverse quality incentive in surgery: implications of reimbursing surgeons less for doing laparoscopic surgery.  Addressing the High Costs of Pancreaticoduodenectomy at Safety-Net...

Antibiotics Appropriate Antibiotic Use for Acute Respiratory Tract Infection in Adults: Advice for High-Value Care From the American College of Physicians and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Overtreatment of Nonpurulent Cellulitis. Application of...

Brain, Head and Neck imaging Altered Mental Status in ICU Patients: Diagnostic Yield of Noncontrast Head CT for Abnormal and Communicable Findings. When does an adult with headaches need central nervous system imaging? Overuse of Head CT Examinations for the...

Inpatient Daily Labs A multifaceted hospitalist quality improvement intervention: Decreased frequency of common labs Residents’ self-report on why they order perceived unnecessary inpatient laboratory tests ICU Labs High-value care in the surgical intensive care unit:...