Choosing Wisely: Home

For more detail about Choosing Wisely at St Vincent's

contact Vicky Jones (Continuous Improvement Coach): victoria.jones@svhm.org.au 

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• Choosing Wisely Australia Recommendations (2019)  
• Choosing Wisely Canada Recommendations (2019)  
• Choosing Wisely UK Recommendations (2018)  

Email:   library.svhmlibrary@svha.org.au

Phone: 9231 2540

Carl de Gruchy Library
Ground floor, Clinical Sciences Building
29 Regent Street, Fitzroy, Vic, 3065

Hours: 8.45 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Monday to Friday

Choosing Wisely is an evidence based health educational campaign which identifies over 500 tests and procedures that are at risk of being over prescribed. In 2002, Medical professionalism in the new millennium: a Physician Charter, was published (Project of the ABIM Foundation, 2002) stating that physicians have a responsibility to promote health equity when some health resources are scarce, as a practical way of achieving distributive justice. 

In discussion with clinicians and patients, medical specialist societies were invited to make five to ten recommendations for preventing overuse of a treatment in their field. This information was then disseminated by the medical societies and made available to health professionals. 

With acknowledgement to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choosing_Wisely 29/9/19

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Note: The next Choosing Wisely National Meeting is scheduled for 20 May 2020 in Sydney!

Jenny Fitzgerald, Research Librarian

Carl de Gruchy Library, Fitzroy Campus

E: jenny.fitzgerald@svha.org.au

T: 03 9231 2541 

Interested in creating a current awareness Alert for Choosing Wisely articles in your speciality? Please contact the Library for more information

Last updated: 29 Aug 2019