Anna Ralston, Alison Fielding, Elizabeth Holliday, Jean Ball, Amanda Tapley, Mieke van Driel, Andrew Davey, Rachel Turner, Dominica Moad, Kristen FitzGerald, Neil Spike, Ben Mitchell, Michael Tran, Katie Fisher, Parker Magin
BACKGROUND: Non-evidence-based and 'low value' clinical care and medical services are 'questionable' clinical activities that are more likely to cause harm than good or whose benefit is disproportionately low compared with its cost. This study sought to establish general practitioner (GP), patient, practice, and in-consultation associations of an index of key non-evidence-based or low-value 'questionable' clinical practices. METHODS: The study was nested in the Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training (ReCEnT) study - an ongoing (from 2010) cohort study in which Australian GP registrars (specialist GP trainees) record details of their in-consultation clinical and educational practice 6-monthly...
September 27, 2023: International Journal for Quality in Health Care