How Can You Engage Patients in De‐Implementation Activities?

Patients, families, and caregivers are directly affected by decisions to de-implement low-value care. Yet, to date, they have rarely been engaged in the creation of recommendations or de-implementation activities. This comes despite evidence that involving patients, families, and caregivers in the design and rollout of service innovations (including de-implementation programmes) can enhance their impact. In this chapter, we provide suggestions for how to engage your patients in all phases of the de-implementation process described in Chapter 4; from the prioritisation of topics, the design of activities, through to the spread of findings from activities to de-implement low-value care. In doing this, we provide examples that demonstrate the feasibility of involving patients as well as resources to assist healthcare professionals, researchers, and other stakeholders who wish to engage patients in their work to reduce low-value care.