Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases: low value interventions.

n March 2015, the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) was one of 41 medical societies of the IRoyal Australasian College of Physicians to participate in the EVOLVE initiative, aimed at identifying five practices or interventions that were of low value or of limited usefulness. ASID members, including paediatricians, were surveyed and asked to short-list (and rank) suggested low value interventions (LVIs). From this survey emerged an overall short list that was circulated to respondents for further comment, and the final five LVIs were submitted to the ASID Council for endorsement.