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ABIM MOC Activity ID

9/16/25-MGR - Improving Healthcare Value: From the Choosing Wisely Campaign to the Latest Evidence-Based Approaches to Reduce Low-Value Care

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

    • Describe the concept of waste and low-value care in the US Healthcare System to enhance healthcare providers stewardship of healthcare resources.
    • Improve practice performance by enhance providers knowledge about the prevalence, determinants and consequences of low-value care.
    • Follow evidence based approaches that both practicing providers and health systems may apply to reduce low-value care.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Oakes AH, Radomski TR. Reducing low-value care and improving healthcare value. JAMA. 2021, May 4; 325(17): 1715-1716. PMID: 33830184.
  2. Radomski TR, Xinhua Z, EZ Lovelace, et al. Use and cost of low-value health services delivered or paid for by the Veterans Health Administration. JAMA Internal Medicine. 2022 Aug; 182(8): 832-839. PMID: 35788786.
  3. Carleton N, Radomski TR, Li D, et al. EHR-Based Nudge Intervention to Reduce Low- Value Axillary Surgery in Older Women with Breast Cancer: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial. JAMA Surgery. 2024 Oct 1;159(10:1117-1125. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2024.2407. PMID: 39018053; PMCID: PMC11255976.


Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Thomas R. Radomski, MD, MS — Associate Professor of Medicine and Clinical & Translational Science, Division of General Internal Medicine | Core Investigator, Center for Healthcare Evaluation, Research, and Promotion, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.