Less, but Better:
Choosing Wisely Canada's
National Meeting
Join us in Winnipeg, MB on May 26 and May 27.
Register NowNew Report – Rising Rates: Antipsychotic Use in Canada’s LTC Homes
New report reveals that nearly one in four residents in LTC homes may be receiving antipsychotic medications inappropriately.
Antipsychotic Use Has Been Rising in Long-Term Care Homes but We Can Do Something About It – We’ve Done It Before
An opinion editorial by Dr. Sid Feldman and Julie Weir on the rising rates of antipsychotics in long-term care.
Medical Practice and the Climate Crisis
An article in JAMA exploring how clinicians can reduce environmental waste in their practice.
Expert Guidance Aims to Improve Appropriate Use of Lab Testing in Canada
New guidance from an expert panel offers recommendations on minimum retesting intervals for five lab tests commonly repeated in laboratories across the country.
Ten Things We’ve Accomplished in the Past Decade of Choosing Wisely Canada
Highlights from 2014-2024.
Introducing Choosing Wisely Canada’s Climate-Conscious Recommendations
New recommendations aim to mobilize clinicians to stop or reduce low-value practices that harm the environment without compromising patient care.
A Decade of Choosing Wisely Canada
Celebrating our tenth Anniversary in Montreal, Quebec, on April 15 and 16.
Should You Get a Full Body MRI? Celebrities Say Yes, but Science Says Otherwise
Dr. Samir Gupta on The Feed with Dr. G shares the risks and harms of full body MRI scans.
Too Many Older Adults Are Taking Risky Sedative Medications
A new opinion editorial by Dr. Wendy Levinson and Dr. Christine Soong highlights the risks associated with older adults using benzodiazepines and other sedative medications.
Recommendations and Resources, by Specialty
- Addiction Medicine
- Allergy & Clinical Immunology
- Anesthesiology
- Blood and Marrow Transplant
- Burns
- Cardiology
- Clinical Biochemistry
- Critical Care
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology and Metabolism
- Family Medicine
- Fertility and Andrology
- Gastroenterology
- General Surgery
- Geriatrics
- Headache
- Hematology
- Hepatology
- Hospital Dentistry
- Hospital Medicine
- Hospital Pharmacy
- Infectious Disease
- Internal Medicine
- Long Term Care
- Medical Biochemistry
- Medical Students
- Medical Genetics
- Medical Laboratory Science
- Medical Microbiology
- Medical Radiation Technology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Nuclear Medicine
- Nurse Practitioner
- Nursing
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- Occupational Medicine
- Oncology
- Orthopaedics
- Otolaryngology
- Paediatrics
- Paediatric Emergency Medicine
- Paediatric Surgery
- Palliative Care
- Pathology
- Pediatric Neurosurgery
- Pharmacist
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Psychiatry
- Public Health
- Radiology
- Residents
- Respiratory Medicine
- Respiratory Therapy
- Rheumatology
- Rural Medicine
- Spine
- Sport and Exercise Medicine
- Transfusion Medicine
- Trauma
- Urology
- Vascular Surgery