Medical Decluttering: A User-Friendly Handbook

By Giuseppe Biondi Zoccai, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Anna Sirignano

Medical Decluttering: A User-Friendly Handbook is a concise, essential guide at the crossroads of clinical ethics, evidence, and real-world workflow design. Aimed at clinicians, trainees, nurses, pharmacists, and healthcare leaders (and written to remain intelligible to engaged patients), it examines how clinical clutter-tests, treatments, portals, metrics, meetings, and documentation-quietly increases cognitive load, cascade risk, treatment burden, and distrust, even when intentions are good. From decision fatigue and cognitive bias to overdiagnosis, overtreatment, and bureaucratic overload, each chapter translates a familiar daily pressure into a practical opportunity for safer care. Drawing on proportional ethics, value and risk communication, implementation science, and lean thinking, the book equips readers to replace reflexive accumulation with structured discernment: speaking in absolute effects, matching time-to-benefit to real patient horizons, and making "not doing" feel like active care through explicit safety-netting. Its signature toolkit-Scan → Sort → Select → Safeguard → Sustain-turns simplification into a repeatable choreography, pairing every subtraction (deprescribing, test stewardship, pathway pruning, digital minimalism) with thresholds, monitoring, "restart if..." rules, and scheduled reassessment, so restraint remains reliable rather than heroic. With point-of-care highlights, scripts for saying "no" with courtesy, case examples, self-check questions, and team-ready checklists, the handbook helps medicine keep what truly "sparks value" and retire what merely consumes attention. More than a manual, Medical Decluttering is a manifesto for essential quality: care that is lighter for the right reasons-clearer to explain, harder to break, more equitable to carry, and more humane for everyone it touches

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HMLG5ZVS
• ISBN13: 9791224314097
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"