Health Affairs Web First: Choosing Wisely Campaign

This study was supported by the ABIM Foundation and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). How To Fulfill The Promise In The Next 5 Years In this analysis, the authors discuss the Choosing Wisely® campaign’s accomplishments over the past five years and summarize what steps could fulfill its promise. They take note of movement’s growth since its founding, with seventy new societies signing on, ; more than 400 recommendations issued, and a steady increase in the number of studies testing interventions to reduce low-value care (see the exhibit below). Exhibit 1: Cumulative Numbers Of Choosing Wisely Participating Societies, recommendations, And Published Articles On Interventions To Reduce Low-Value Care, 2012–16 Source: Authors’ analysis of information from Daniel Wolfson (ABIM Foundation, personal communication, June 29, 2017) and Jennifer Maratt (University of Michigan and Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor  Healthcare System, personal communication, July 24, 2017) and of data on articles from PubMed and the Web of Science. To better implement Choosing Wisely recommendations, the authors suggest new interventions, such as more consistently targeting the drivers of different types of low-value service utilization. They also suggest that more rigorous study designs are needed, to better explicate interventions’ potential effects and reduce the use of low-value care. To make these ideas reality, the authors recommend incentivizing professional societies to coll...
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