"4 E's" Ways That Clinicians Can Reduce Low-Value Care on Medical Wards

William K Silverstein; Jerome A Leis; Christopher Moriates

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.7632

"4 E's" Ways That Clinicians Can Reduce Low-Value Care on Medical Wards

JAMA Intern Med. 2024 Mar 1;184(3):322-323. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.7632.

Authors

William K Silverstein^{1

2}, Jerome A Leis^{1

3}, Christopher Moriates^{4

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Division of Hospital Medicine, Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California.
⁵ Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles.
⁶ Costs of Care, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 38285558
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.7632

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This JAMA Network Insight demonstrates examples of how clinicians can implement stepwise changes to reduce unnecessary patient harms, using the 4 E’s.

MeSH terms

Hospitals*
Humans
Low-Value Care*