Blog Category: Letters from the Foundation

On April 15th Jordan Rau of Kaiser Health News published a thoughtful article examining the Choosing Wisely campaign. This type of analysis is a critical part of the transparent, honest dialogue about the issues of unnecessary medical care that we have sought to encourage since launching the campaign. That said, we think it is unfortunately… Read more »

There is an interesting conversation taking place around Choosing Wisely® and a recent JAMA study by Pearson and Gliwa. It’s heartening to see that the campaign is doing what it was always meant to do – spark conversation. In their study, Gliwa and Pearson sought to “evaluate the role that evidence on benefits, risks, and… Read more »

The Choosing Wisely campaign was recently criticized for lacking a solid methodological approach in an editorial in JAMA Internal Medicine by Deborah Grady, Rita Redberg and William Mallon. As such, we wanted to clarify the procedures that all of our specialty society partners have followed in creating their recommendations of tests and treatments that physicians… Read more »

I thought the authors of the recent New England Journal of Medicine article, “Choosing Wisely — The Politics and Economics of Labeling Low-Value Services” presented the campaign in a thoughtful and balanced manner. On one hand, I was pleased with how the campaign was depicted—particularly the authors’ praise for the way it carefully created a… Read more »

Every time I am invited to speak about the Choosing Wisely campaign, I ask the audience to raise their hands if they have witnessed or heard of unnecessary care delivered to patients, themselves and/or their family members. Usually, about three-quarters of them raise their hands. I then ask if they have witnessed or heard of… Read more »