Thomas, Rae, Gangathimmaiah, Vinay, Coates, Marlow, and Guppy, Michelle (2024) Editorial: Navigating low-value care in regional, rural and remote Australia. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 32 (2). pp. 213-215.

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[Extract] Occasions of low-value care (LVC) are those that confer little or no benefit to the patient or where harm (including lost treatment opportunity and financial cost) exceeds likely benefit.1 While it is easy to conceptualise health care as either low or high value, the reality is that ‘value’ is conferred on a continuum and within a context. Some health care activities are widely acknowledged as low value (e.g., cranial CT in patients without meeting clinical decision criteria2 and MRIs for low back pain3). However, much health care is conducted in the ‘grey zone’4, 5 where the ‘value’ of health care is context dependent.

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