ORLANDO, Florida — The goals of the Choosing Wisely campaign, although laudable, can be difficult to achieve, especially when patients and caregivers push for medical interventions not backed by ...
A major goal of the Choosing Wisely campaign is to educate and empower both the clinician and patient communities, eventually reducing the overuse of resources, according to Daniel Wolfson, executive ...
Therapy for Stage IV Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer With and Without Driver Alterations: ASCO Living Guidelines Q and A The Choosing Wisely (CW) campaign, launched in 2012, includes oncology-specific ...
This article explores how words carry lasting power to help or harm others, stressing that mindful, compassionate language ...
The American Society of Hematology has adopted 10 of the recommendations from Choosing Wisely to encourage more high-value care, but barriers to adoption remain. Barriers to adopting ...
The AAP outlines 5 tests and procedures commonly ordered in pediatric emergency medicine that clinicians and patients should question. As part of the Choosing Wisely campaign, the American Academy of ...
A statewide pay-for-performance intervention based on a set of guidelines called Choosing Wisely reduced rates of inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions to treat acute respiratory tract infections by ...
Low-value care—the use of unnecessary and potentially harmful health care services—accounted for roughly $200 billion in wasteful spending in the United States in 2011. In 2012 the ABIM Foundation and ...
The first "Choosing Wisely" list for endocrinologists has been published. Following similar initiatives in other medical specialties, it has pinpointed "5 Things Physicians and Patients Should ...