Highlights
- •Less is More aims to tackle overuse in medicine.
- •Several anti-waste campaigns published “top-five lists” of low-value medical interventions.
- •Barriers for implementing Less is More medicine have been identified in several European countries.
- •Simple awareness of these recommendations is insufficient to change physician behaviors.
- •Multiple interventions and quality-measurement efforts are necessary for widely implementing these recommendations.
Abstract
Keywords
1. Introduction
2. Barriers to reducing overuse

2.1 Patients’ expectations
2.2 Physicians’ behaviour
2.3 Patient and physician interaction
2.4 Lack of evidence and universal definition
2.5 Lack of health services research and policy
2.6 Fragmentation of care
3. Perspectives
3.1 Monitoring and data reporting using variability
3.2 Financial incentives
3.3 Education
4. Conclusion and future agenda
Declaration of Competing Interest
Acknowledgments
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