Choosing Wisely | An Initiative of the ABIM Foundation

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><em>Choosing Wisely</em><sup style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; ">®</sup> aims to promote conversations between physicians and patients by helping patients choose care that is:</p><ul style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: square; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; ">Supported by evidence</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; ">Not duplicative of other tests or procedures already received</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; ">Free from harm</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; ">Truly necessary</li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In response to this challenge, national organizations representing medical specialists have been asked to "choose wisely" by identifying five tests or procedures commonly used in their field, whose necessity should be questioned and discussed. The resulting lists of <a title="Lists" href="http://www.choosingwisely.org/doctor-patient-lists/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 100, 149); ">"Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question"</a> will spark discussion about the need—or lack thereof—for many frequently ordered tests or treatments.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">This concept was originally conceived and piloted by the <a href="http://npalliance.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 100, 149); ">National Physicians Alliance</a>, which, through an ABIM Foundation <a href="http://www.abimfoundation.org/Initiatives/Putting-the-Charter-Into-Practice-Grants.aspx" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 100, 149); "><em>Putting the Charter into Practice</em> grant,</a> created a <a href="http://www.abimfoundation.org/Initiatives/Putting-the-Charter-Into-Practice-Grants/2009-Grantees.aspx" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 100, 149); ">set of three lists</a> of specific steps physicians in internal medicine, family medicine and pediatrics could take in their practices to promote the <a href="http://www.abimfoundation.org/Resource-Center/Bibliography/Professionalism-Articles-by-Topic.aspx#Resources" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 100, 149); ">more effective use of health care resources.</a> These lists were first published in<em><a href="http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/171/15/1385?ijkey=.DaPcj2P7Zd8I&keytype=ref&siteid=amajnls" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 100, 149); ">Archives of Internal Medicine.</a></em></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Recognizing that patients need better information about what care they truly need to have these conversations with their physicians, <a href="http://consumerhealthchoices.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 100, 149); ">Consumer Reports </a>is developing <a title="Choosing Wisely® Consumer Partners" href="http://www.choosingwisely.org/partners/choosing-wisely-consumer-communication-collaborators" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 100, 149); ">patient-friendly materials</a> and is working with consumer groups to disseminate them widely. <a title="http://www.choosingwisely.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/choosing-wisely-one-pager-13013.pdf" href="http://www.choosingwisely.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/choosing-wisely-one-pager-13013.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 100, 149); ">Learn more</a>.</p></div><a href="http://www.choosingwisely.org/">http://www.choosingwisely.org/</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

Choosing Wisely | An Initiative of the ABIM Foundation

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