Evolve is a flagship initiative led by RACP members to drive high-value, high-quality care in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
Physicians often prescribe medicines as part of managing complex medical conditions. Both medications and multi-morbidity are becoming increasingly complex.
The RACP and the Australasian Society of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacologists and Toxicologists (ASCEPT) have developed new evidence-based Evolve Top-5 recommendations within pharmacology and toxicology that asks clinicians to rethink their prescribing decisions for quality patient care.
Learn about the ASCEPT Evolve Top-5 recommendations.
About Evolve
Evolve aims to reduce low-value care by supporting physicians to be leaders in changing clinical behaviour for better patient care, make better decisions, and make better use of resources.
Evolve works with specialties to identify their Top-5 clinical practices that are considered low-value. Low-value care is clinical practices that, in particular circumstances, may:
- be overused
- provide little or no benefit
- cause unnecessary harm.
Evolve’s main objective of reducing low-value care practices also reduces related emissions and waste. This in turn helps to reduce future climate change impacts on patient health and contributes to building stronger more climate resilient healthcare systems.
Evolve Top-5 recommendations
Recommendations on low-value practices are developed through a rigorous, peer-reviewed process led by clinical experts, informed by evidence and guided by consultation and enable physicians to:
- safely and responsibly phase out low-value tests, treatments and procedures, where appropriate
- enhance the safety and quality of healthcare
- provide high-value care to patients based on evidence and expertise
- influence the best use of health resources, reducing wasted expenditure and the carbon footprint of the healthcare system.
Learn more about the Evolve recommendations.
Get involved
Watch our video to learn more about joining the Evolve movement and see tips on how you can implement Top-5 recommendations in your workplace.
Resources
The Evolve movement has a library of resources from case studies, webinars, promotional materials, podcasts and tools to claim CPD for Evolve audit activities.
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