Are You Choosing Wisely in Your Professional Practice?

Are You Choosing Wisely in Your Professional Practice?

To enhance the value of care provided to Americans, the American Board of Internal Medicine and Consumer Reports launched the Choosing Wisely® initiative in 2012. Choosing Wisely educates providers and patients about high-frequency, low-value care practices that can be avoided to decrease cost and i...

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Published in:Clinical journal of oncology nursing Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 211 - 212
Main Author: Fessele, Kristen L
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Oncology Nursing Society 01-04-2016
Subjects:
Analysis
Cancer
Care and treatment
Career Choice
Complications and side effects
Decision Making
Female
Humans
Male
Medical care quality
Medical Oncology - manpower
Medicine - statistics & numerical data
Medicine - trends
Nurses
Nursing
Practice
Professional Practice - trends
Societies, Medical
Specialties, Nursing - statistics & numerical data
Specialties, Nursing - trends
United States
organizations
patient care
delivery of health care
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Summary:To enhance the value of care provided to Americans, the American Board of Internal Medicine and Consumer Reports launched the Choosing Wisely® initiative in 2012. Choosing Wisely educates providers and patients about high-frequency, low-value care practices that can be avoided to decrease cost and increase the value of health care. The Oncology Nursing Society collaborated with the American Academy of Nursing to add the first-ever nursing-focused list to those previously submitted by more than 70 specialty societies.
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Kristen L. Fessele, PhD, RN, AOCN®, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City
Fessele can be reached at kristen.Fessele@nurs.utah.edu, with copy to editor at CJONEditor@ons.org.
ISSN:1092-1095
1538-067X
DOI:10.1188/16.CJON.211-212