Choosing Wisely: Changing Practice to Reduce Harm and Increase Value
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Learning Objectives
- Describe the need to create change across Washington state using the Choosing Wisely recommendations
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Outline the strategies Group Health Cooperative and Virginia Mason used to reduce antibiotic use for viral infections, annual paps and
imaging for uncomplicated headaches
- Review the Choosing Wisely Action Manual, which outlines eight steps to create organizational change
Presenters
Matt Handley, MD
Chair, WA State Choosing Wisely Task Force
Medical Director, Quality, Group Health Cooperative
Norris Kamo, MD
Associate Physician, General Internal Medicine, Virginia Mason
Scott Kronlund, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Northwest Physicians Network
(Originally recorded May 27, 2015)