Hospitals
Make a change in your hospital by putting recommendations into practice.
Hospitals
Make a change in your hospital by putting recommendations into practice.
Recommendations
Resources for clinicians by health specialty
Make a change in your hospital by putting recommendations into practice.
Make a change in your hospital by putting recommendations into practice.
Join a national consortium that’s changing the lab utilization landscape in Canada. Share data, undertake improvement projects, and be part of a learning community.
Learn MoreJoin a concerted effort to strengthen Canada’s blood supply. Compare your hospital’s red blood cell utilization against national appropriateness benchmarks.
Learn MoreBe among the growing community of hospitals that have made Choosing Wisely a cornerstone of their quality improvement efforts and organizational strategy. Get designated as a Choosing Wisely Canada Hospital.
Learn MoreChoosing Wisely Canada has a suite of toolkits that can help kick-start your efforts to reduce overuse in hospital settings:
A rural medicine toolkit for reducing unnecessary patient movement for medical care.
A toolkit on reducing repetitive, “routine” blood tests in hospitals.
A toolkit for reducing inappropriate use of benzodiazepines and sedative-hypnotics among older adults in hospitals.
A toolkit for appropriate use of urinary catheters in hospitals.
A toolkit for reducing unnecessary pre-operative testing.
A toolkit for reducing unnecessary emergency department lab testing.
A toolkit for reducing unnecessary ankle x-rays in patients with low-risk ankle injuries.
A toolkit for appropriate ordering practices of free thyroid hormone testing.
A toolkit for reducing unnecessary red blood cell transfusions in hospitals.