Comparative evaluation of audit and feedback-based de-implementation strategies to reduce low-value drug prescriptions in people over 65 years of age in primary care
Call for tender for project: Grants for Health Research and Development Projects. Basque Government Department of Health. 2024 call
Funding body: Basque Government Department of Health
Expediente: 2024111054
IP: Eduardo Millán
Financiación concedida: 182.175,18€
Description: Reducing or eliminating (de-implementing) ineffective and/or harmful (i.e., low-value) medical practices has the potential to improve patient outcomes, is essential for the provision of high-quality care, and mitigates the unsustainable rise in healthcare costs in our healthcare system.
Objectives:
- Focus the care model on the person and on achieving health outcomes.
- Ensure quality performance (excellence and sustainability) of public health functions of surveillance, prevention, protection and promotion of health, responding to the health needs of the population
- Strengthen capacities and promote public health research to guide health policies, strategies and programmes.
- Advance the transfer and use of research and innovation results in improving health-related systems.
Expected results: The elimination or reduction of low-value practices such as inappropriate drug prescribing can lead to improved quality of care and outcomes in terms of population health, while reducing healthcare costs.