Why the study?
The Society of Hospital Medicine aimed to address overuse of medical tests and treatments in adult hospital medicine by developing targeted recommendations.
Population
Adult medical inpatients
Comparison
Five Choosing Wisely recommendations vs usual care to reduce low-value interventions
Design
Staged methodology including surveys, literature review, and Delphi panel voting
Authors
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Hospitals should implement these 5 targets to reduce low-value care in adult inpatients; extends Choosing Wisely to hospital medicine.
The SHM Choosing Wisely recommendations provide five specific targets to reduce low-value care and overutilization in adult hospital medicine.
Bulger et al. (2013) studied Overuse of medical tests and treatments in adult hospital medicine. Choosing Wisely recommendations was evaluated on Development of 5 recommendations to reduce overutilization of care. The Society of Hospital Medicine developed 5 Choosing Wisely recommendations to reduce waste in adult hospital medicine, targeting urinary catheters, stress ulcer prophylaxis, transfusions, telemetry, and repetitive lab testing.
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