VIDEO: 2021’s Top Hospitals for Avoiding Overuse

By Judith Garber | May 5, 2021

On May 4, the Lown Institute released the 2021 data on hospital overuse from the Lown Institute Hospitals Index. Lown leaders Vikas Saini and Shannon Brownlee discussed the results from the Institute’s newly published research on hospital overuse with experts Mike Chernew, Rita Redberg, and Mark Smith. Then they brought on Pete Healy from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and Gary Kaplan from Virginia Mason hospital in Seattle to explain how their hospitals performed so well on the avoiding overuse metric. Watch the full event below!

To eliminate medication overload, serious cultural, educational, and policy changes are needed. This action plan offers recommendations for policymakers, health care institutions, clinicians, and patients across five key categories to reduce harm from multiple medication use. Suggested Citation: Eliminating medication overload: A national action plan. Working Group on Medication Overload. Brookline, MA: The Lown Institute, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46241/LI.YLBW4885

Pharmaceutical marketing is a significant factor in the growing public health crisis of medication overload, which puts millions of older adults at risk of preventable harm and premature death. This issue brief provides recommendations to reduce pharmaceutical industry influence by limiting pharma sales rep visits to clinicians and direct-to-consumer advertising.

This issue brief provides recommendations for clinical practice guidelines and electronic health records that would give clinicians the information they need to appropriately prescribe and deprescribe.