Choosing wisely: more good clinical recommendations to improve health care quality and reduce harm.

摘要

The Choosing Wisely campaign provides key clinical recommendations for physicians and patients that promote best practices and help avoid unnecessary medical interventions. This campaign is sponsored by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, and initially nine medical specially societies participated by providing a list of their top five recommendations. We previously published the lists from the three primary care specialty societies in American Family Physician (AFP),1 and maintain the lists on our website. Now, another 16 medical specialty organizations have joined the campaign, with more to come. In addition, Consumer Reports, AARP, and a dozen other consumer-oriented groups have partnered with the Choosing Wisely campaign to help provide information and resources to patients on making wise decisions about health care. This is an unprecedented collaborative project in the house of medicine. Hopefully, it will have far-reaching implications for improving practice and patient outcomes, lowering costs, and reducing harm.