Table 1 Characteristics of the de-implementation interventions

Physicians

35

13

Primary care outpatient

34

13

Patients

2

Primary care inpatient and outpatient

1

1

Nurses

2

1

Secondary or tertiary care outpatient

2

Other health care providers

2

Secondary or tertiary care inpatient

12

3

Two or more target groups

9

4

Nursing home

1

1

Medical content^a

N

Clinical intervention^a

N

Family/general practice

36

13

Drug treatment

37

15

Mixed, but not specified

8

3

Antibiotic use

26

Emergency medicine

2

NSAID use

3

General surgery

2

1

Overall prescribing

2

Orthopedics

2

1

A combination of different drugs

6

Anesthesiology

1

Laboratory tests

8

Internal medicine

1

Diagnostic imaging

6

0

Obstetric

1

Blood transfusion

1

1

Oncology

1

1

Prevention

1

1

Pediatrics

1

Rehabilitation

1

1

Psychiatrics

1

1

Pulmonary surgery

1

1

Urology

1

1

Vascular surgery

1

1

Number of used strategies

N

1

26

6

2

13

5

3

7

4

4

4

3