Choosing Wisely Colorado

Friday, July 05, 2013 05:08 PM

The Colorado Medical Society has enthusiastically embarked on the Choosing Wisely Colorado campaign. Choosing Wisely Colorado is a physician-centered statewide program designed to bring the national Choosing Wisely campaign closer to home. There is a nationwide call to reduce medically unnecessary health care in an effort to improve quality of care, reduce potential for avoidable patient harm, and to help control health care costs. Choosing Wisely Colorado will provide tools to assist physicians with the challenging patient conversations regarding discouraging medically unnecessary tests or procedures.

View our launch video featuring CMS President Jan Kief, MD

View a video that features Kim Warner, MD, president of the Colorado Section of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, discussing with a patient why average-risk women can have Pap tests on a three-year interval.

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PHYSICIAN TOOLBOX		FOR YOUR PATIENTS
Pap guidelines for low risk patients: click here \| and here DEXA screening: click here and and here Antibiotic overuse: click here, here and and here Imaging for low back pain: click here and here Vitamin D screening Download the complete set of lists of Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question (56-page PDF) Download the informational brochure about Choosing Wisely Colorado		Choosing Wisely Wallet Card Patient-friendly resources on these recommendations developed by Consumer Reports

NATIONAL CHOOSING WISELY RESOURCES		LIBRARY
Lists of Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question from national specialty societies Watch the “Good Stewardship-Provider Version” video from the national Choosing Wisely campaign. Watch a video, Treating sinusitis: Don’t rush to antibiotics, from the national Choosing Wisely campaign. Watch a video, Imaging tests for lower-back pain: Why you probably don’t need them from the national Choosing Wisely campaign. View more about the national Choosing Wisely campaign		Click here to read a feature on Choosing Wisely Colorado by Gina Claxton published in the September/October issue of Colorado Medicine Click here to read a message from CMS CEO Alfred Gilchrist on the importance of Choosing Wisely Colorado Click here to read an article about Choosing Wisely Colorado published in Health Policy Solutions - “Useless, costly medical procedures targeted by Choosing Wisely campaign” Read “Choosing Wisely: Helping Physicians and Patients Make Smart Decisions About Their Care,” Christine K. Cassel, MD, and James A. Guest, JD, JAMA, May 2, 2012—Vol 307, No. 17 Read “A Decade of Reversal: An Analysis of 146 Contradicted Medical Practices,” Vinay Prasad, MD, et al., Mayo Clin Proc., August 2013;88(8):790-798 — Thought from staff: While the evidence changes, the strength of your patient relationship should not

If you would like to become more involved with the efforts of Choosing Wisely Colorado please contact Chet Seward.

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Choosing Wisely Colorado

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