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Table 3 Value champion learning modules

From: Can clinician champions reduce potentially inappropriate medications in people living with dementia? Study protocol for a cluster randomized trial

Module 1: High value care and health equity: Understanding the intersection between “value” and “equity” can inform conversations between value champions, leadership and stakeholders and inform project planning.

Module 2: Engaging leadership for high value care: Provides participants with an overview of how to engage leadership throughout the project and provides practical tips on how to create and sustain this engagement.

Module 3: Choosing an overused service: Overuse of low-value care is common, selecting a target area of overuse requires careful consideration of multiple factors that will impact subsequent success.

Module 4: How to conduct a stakeholder assessment and why it is important: Identifying, assessing and engaging stakeholders who will be impacted by reducing the use of a service is critical to project success.

Module 5: Engaging patient participation in your project: This module explains why incorporating the patient voice is important in reducing overuse and provides examples of how to do so.

Module 6: Measurement, data and trust, supporting change with data: This module discusses common challenges and a range of solutions for collecting and reporting overuse data when taking action on overuse.

Module 7: Engaging health care professionals: The ‘Taking Action on Overuse’ framework and change package provides suggested key activities to select from when designing an intervention.

Module 8: Strategies employed by value champions: This module provides examples of intervention strategies used by clinician value champions in their setting to engage providers, staff, and patients in change efforts.

Module 9: Choice architecture and overuse reduction: This module helps participants understand how concepts from the field of behavioral economics can be applied to their overuse reduction initiative.

Module 10: Planning for sustainment: An understanding of how value champions can incorporate plans for sustainment into every aspect of their overuse reduction initiative is provided in this module.