Faded Promises: The Challenge of Deadopting Low-Value Care

• DOI: 10.7326/m14-0212
• Publication Date: 2014-04-28T22:31:02Z
• Authors: Benjamin R. Roman; David A. Asch
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Bias; Economics, Behavioral; Humans; Diffusion of Innovation; Delivery of Health Care; 3. Good health

This commentary discusses the difficulty in ceasing practices that physicians have come to believe in despite evidence showing that those practices have little value. The authors suggest several ap...