tools to reduce low-value care: lessons from covid-19 pandemic comment on “key factors that promote low-value care: views of experts from the united states, canada, and the netherlands”

Based on a summary of interviews with 18 experts, verkerk et al defined the seven key factors that promoted low-value care, which included system, social, and knowledge factors. during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic, these key factors have been influential due to the uncertainty of the disease at the beginning of the pandemic. globally, several measures have been implemented to reduce low-value care practices and promote high-value care for covid-19 patients. from huge multicenter, non-industry sponsored or multiplatform trials, to the use of social networks sites is an indispensable and effective way to disseminate medical information. thanks to these measures, we have transformed a scenario of ignorance into an evidence-based medical scenario in less than a year. verkerk and colleagues’ proposed key factors are an excellent framework for characterizing and highlighting the lessons that can be learnt from how we have fought against the pandemic and low-value practices.