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This challenge of medical overuse has been recognized by the Lown Institute in Brookline, Massachusetts, as well as by educators at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has given rise to a new educational conference format called ‘‘Right Care Rounds.’’ This conference uses the familiar format of a case presentation to explore and identify drivers of medical overuse and...

Six trends - movement towards value-based payment, rapid adoption of digital health technology, care delivery in non-traditional settings, development of individualized clinical guidelines, increased transparency, and growing cultural awareness about the harms of medical overuse - are driving the US health care system towards a future defined by quality- and patient-centric care. Health care or...

PROBLEM Physician behaviors that promote overuse of health care resources develop early in training, and the medical education environment helps foster such behaviors. The authors describe the development of a Choosing Wisely list for medical students aimed at helping to curb overuse. APPROACH The list was developed in 2015 by Choosing Wisely Canada (CWC) in partnership with the Canadian Fede...