Assessment of Surgical Specialty Societies' Choosing Wisely Recommendations

Alexis G Antunez; Dana A Telem; Lesly A Dossett

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2019.2309

Assessment of Surgical Specialty Societies' Choosing Wisely Recommendations

JAMA Surg. 2019 Oct 1;154(10):971-973. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.2309.

Authors

Alexis G Antunez^{1

2}, Dana A Telem^{2

3}, Lesly A Dossett^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor.
² Center for Healthcare Outcomes and Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
³ Department of Surgery, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Abstract

This research study assesses Choosing Wisely deimplementation recommendations from surgical specialty societies to ascertain how many are directly applicable to surgical procedures or under surgeons’ control.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Humans
Medical Overuse / prevention & control*
Societies, Medical*
Specialties, Surgical*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding