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Tuesday, April 20th @ 4PM EST Join us for “Tackling COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy,” with speaker Sandra Quinn, PhD, Maryland Center for Health Equity, University of Maryland. Register here. Trust in Healthcare Fluer NS. ‘A massive gap in information’: Most vaccine clinical trials fail to report data on participants’ ethnicity or race. STAT. February 2021 “An… Read more »

Tuesday, March 16, 2021 @ 4PM EST Join us for “Tools for Building Institutional Trust” with speaker Jennifer Stephens, MPH, from Essential Hospitals. Register here. Trust in Healthcare Sharieff GQ. Building Organizational Trust During a Pandemic. NEJM Catalyst. January 2021 “Engendering trust among physicians, staff, and patients has been paramount during the pandemic, and leadership… Read more »

February 16th @ 4PM EST Join us for a webinar on “The Evolving Role of Community Health Workers as Trusted Messengers” with speaker Denise Smith from the National Association of Community Health Workers.Register here. Trust in Healthcare Still Happening: Pelvic Exams on Anesthetized Patients. Why? Medscape. January 2021 “The practice of medical students giving unconsented… Read more »

Tuesday, January 19th @ 4PM EST Please join us for a webinar on Building a Better Health Care System Post-COVID with Corinna Sorenson, PhD from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy. Register here. Trust In Healthcare Using Mistrust, Distrust, and Low Trust Precisely in Medical Care and Medical Research Advances Health Equity. American Journal of… Read more »

Tuesday, December 15th @ 4PM EST Join us for a webinar on the Intersection of Trust and Choosing Wisely with speakers Richard Baron, MD, President, CEO, American Board of Internal Medicine, and Daniel Wolfson, VP, COO, American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation. Register here. Blogs, Issue Briefs, Opinion Pieces and More… More than a third… Read more »

Dear Choosing Wisely Learning Network members: Over the past two years, the ABIM Foundation’s focus has evolved to include issues of trust in health care and how trust contributes to better health care outcomes, increased patient satisfaction, and greater physician well-being. Following the Foundation’s lead, the Learning Network will also evolve its focus from Choosing… Read more »

Tuesday, November 17 @ 4PM EST Please join us for a webinar with Andrew Whitman, Pharm.D., Clinical Pharmacist in Oncology/Palliative Care at University of Virginia Health System. Register here.   Blogs, Issue Briefs, Opinion Pieces and More… Berwick D. Choosing Wisely International Keynote Presentation. October 2020 (Link expires November 12)   “You need this drug,”… Read more »

Blogs, Issue Briefs, Opinion Pieces and More… Building A Better Health Care System Post-Covid-19: Steps for Reducing Low-Value and Wasteful Care. NEJM Catalyst. August 2020“The range of actions we outline herein are certainly not exhaustive, but represent critical steps that a range of stakeholders can take in the coming months. Now more than ever, we… Read more »

Tuesday, September 15, @ 4:00 PM EST Please join us for a webinar on Delaware’s statewide Choosing Wisely inspired advanced illness collaboration with speaker Dr. Rob Dressler, quality and safety officer at Christiana Care. Register in advance for this meeting.   Blogs, Issue Briefs, Opinion Pieces and More… Pediatric Advanced Imaging: When Is Less More?… Read more »

Tuesday, July 28th at 4:00PM EST Join usfor a webinar on our latest tool. Dr. Lisa Letourneau and Kelly Rand will share a look at our patient engagement toolkit, discuss the research behind it and provide a few examples on how to apply the tools to COVID-19. Watch. Blogs, Issue Briefs, Opinion Pieces and More…… Read more »

Blogs, Issue Briefs, Opinion Pieces and More… Study Examines Whether Blood Test Can Identify Early Cancers. National Cancer Institute. June 2020“In the first study of its kind, a blood test combined with imaging tests detected tumors—some at an early stage—in women without a history of cancer or any symptoms. The blood test identified breast, lung,… Read more »

May is National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month. Check out the Choosing Wisely Clinician Lists – Allergy & Immunology. Blogs, Issue Briefs, Opinion Pieces and More… Guidelines on Neuroimaging for Migraine. Physician’s Weekly. May 2020“Determining when and how to use neuroimaging for migraine is an important issue that physicians face when seeing the 40 million… Read more »

Blogs, Issue Briefs, Opinion Pieces and More… “What worries you most?’ Survey examines patients’ biggest health care worries.” Lown Institute. February 2020 “Fewer patients–but still a significant amount–expressed worries about health care quality: being overtreated, misdiagnosed, or getting an infection while in the hospital. Between 25-30% of patients were ‘very worried’ about these quality issues…. Read more »