Choosing Wisely: the antidote to overmedicalisation
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Getting from choosing wisely to spending wisely.
It is intuitively true that the most just ways of reducing health care costs are to reduce unnecessary tests and interventions and improve the efficiency of care. Neither of these imperils outcomes (and may improve many) nor involves restricting care (and developing efficient care may require expansion of overall care). The first activity comes under the aegis of reducing waste, and the second,...
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How have you implemented these recommendations in your practice? To cut prescriptions for antipsychotics, my team and I made a plan. First, we asked the Behavioural Supports Ontario nurses at each long-term care home to try nonpharmacologic interventions (eg, redirecting exitseeking patients, calming patients with activities, music, and hobbies). We ensured that behaviour such as calling out an...
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We surveyed internal medicine residents regarding how they approach febrile patients in cross-cover settings. Residents frequently use the term "full fever work-up," and rely on this for sign-out. Despite this, residents felt fever work-ups were not evidenced-based, and definitions of when and how to respond to a fever varied.
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We commend the American Society of Anesthesiologists for using solid and transparent methods to develop a “top-five” list of low-value activities that should be avoided. We publ i shed this list1 in an ongoing effort to support the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s “Choosing Wisely” campaign aimed at engaging specialty medical societies to identify low-value health care activitie...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2213-2600
DOI: 10.1016/s2213-2600(17)30054-1