Past Events - Choosing Wisely Canada

6 Dec 2018

What Health Care can Learn from the NBA: The Importance of Data in Improving Performance

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

In 2010 the NBA adopted data and analytics to optimize player performance. Not surprisingly, this improved the accuracy of players’ shots, made them shoot to their best abilities, and brought transparency to scores. If this is what data did for basketball imagine what it can do for health care! For December's CW Talks we will be joined by Dr. Sacha Bhatia. Dr. Bhatia will explore how data can improve physician and team performance and discuss current barriers to transformative data analytics in healthcare through a Choosing Wisely context.

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14 Nov 2018

The College of Family Physicians of Canada: Family Medicine Forum 2018

Nov 14, 9:00am EST - Nov 17, 5:00pm EST

Taking place at Metro Convention Centre in Toronto, Family Medicine Forum is an annual conference for family physicians, hosted by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Choosing Wisely Canada will have a booth at this year's forum to share primary care resources related to the campaign.

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1 Nov 2018

Using Antibiotics Wisely: How to navigate cold and flu season

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

‘Tis the season! Join us Thursday November 1st from 12pm-1pm ET to hear how the Using Antibiotics Wisely campaign has progressed since last year’s Antibiotic Awareness Week. Participants can look forward to Dr. Guylene Theriault, Choosing Wisely Canada Primary Care Co-Lead, speaking about practice changes the Working Group has put together and showcasing selected clinical tools that match to each syndrome helping front line clinicians choose wisely when it comes to antibiotic prescriptions for upper respiratory infections.

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24 Oct 2018

Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario: 2018 Conference

Oct 24, 9:00am EST - Oct 25, 9:00am EST

Taking place at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, Ontario, AFHTO's 'Relationship Design with Starfield in Mind' features many relevant Choosing Wisely themes including scale and spread of programs, and the future of regional approach to health care. This year's AFHTO conference focuses on the importance of primary health care and investing in interprofessional team-based care for better patient care in Ontario.

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17 Oct 2018

Health Quality Ontario: Health Quality Transformation 2018

8:00am EST - 8:00pm EST

Taking place at the Metro Convention Centre in Toronto, Health Quality Transformation focuses on putting quality into action with themes focused on improvement, measurement, and fostering a culture of quality in health care. Choosing Wisely Canada will have a booth a this year's conference to share and discuss new campaign resources.

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10 Oct 2018

Canadian Society of Internal Medicine: 2018 Annual Meeting

Oct 10, 9:00am EST - Oct 13, 5:00pm EST

Taking place in the Banff Centre in Alberta, CSIM's Annual Meeting brings together clinicians, educators, researchers and trainees in internal medicine. This year's conference features a workshop on implementing a Choosing Wisely recommendation on safe opioid prescribing.

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4 Oct 2018

Choosing Wisely Spread: What It Takes and What We’ve Learned

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Over the past two years, five hospitals and six family health teams in Ontario have worked jointly on a groundbreaking initiative to implement and spread the Choosing Wisely recommendations across their sites. They have achieved significant reductions in overuse across more than 10 clinical areas, but have also encountered a number of challenges along the way. Join us for retrospective on the project, ARTIC-Choosing Wisely: An Idea Worth Spreading. The webinar will be delivered by the project leads of this initiative at North York General Hospital.

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27 Sep 2018

Ontario College of Family Physicians: Practising Wisely

Sep 27, 9:00am EST - Oct 3, 4:00pm EST

Ontario College of Family Physicians' Practising Wisely workshops focus on reducing overuse using the latest evidence and tools. Upcoming workshops are available in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec.

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13 Sep 2018

Pharmacists Embracing the Principles of Choosing Wisely

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Did you know The Canadian Pharmacists Association has a list of 'Six Things Pharmacists and Patients Should Question'? For September's webinar we'll hear from Dr. Shelita Dattani, Director of Practice Development and Knowledge Translation, and Dr. Phil Emberley, Director of Practice Advancement and Research, about why it was imperative the CPhA join the campaign as well as to hear about how pharmacists can incorporate Choosing Wisely concepts in practice.

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25 Jul 2018

The Excellence in Quality Improvement Certificate Program (EQUIP) 2018-2019

Jul 25, 8:00am EST - May 10, 5:00pm EST

The EQUIP program’s enriched content and deeper dive into QI methodologies should make projects more likely to succeed, and will pre pare participants to maximize their project’s impact and receive academic recognition for their work.

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7 Jun 2018

Using Data to Drive Change: Audit and Feedback Best Practices

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

When health care providers have a solid understanding of their performance and ordering patterns in comparison to their peers, it can help drive change and improve health outcomes for all. For June’s Choosing Wisely Talks, presented by the Canadian Medical Association, we will be joined by data driven quality improvement expert, Dr. Noah Ivers - Scientist and Family Physician at Women’s College Hospital, Toronto.

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3 May 2018

Choosing Wisely in Northern Rural and Remote Communities

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

There are many unique challenges and opportunities for tackling overuse in rural and remote communities. For May’s Choosing Wisely Talks we will be joined by Drs. Sarah Cook and David Pontin, from the Northwest Territories, to discuss the implementation of Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations within the realities of northern and rural Canada.

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23 Apr 2018

Choosing Wisely Canada National Meeting 2018

8:00am EST - 5:00pm EST

Taking place at the Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Choosing Wisely Canada's National Meeting is an opportunity for clinicians, patients and system leaders to come together to discuss, engage, and network on topics related to reducing unnecessary care. Registration and call for abstracts are now open!

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5 Apr 2018

De-implementing Wisely: Using Implementation Science to improve uptake of Choosing Wisely Recommendations

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

To reduce unnecessary or harmful care, identifying what needs to change is only half the battle - figuring out how to change is the next step. Join Choosing Wisely Canada and Dr. Jeremy Grimshaw, Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Transfer and Uptake and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Implementation Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, where he will guide participants through the science of implementation and how these methods can be used locally to improve de-implementation of unnecessary care at your institution.

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1 Mar 2018

Opioid Wisely: A New Campaign from Choosing Wisely Canada

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

On March 1st, the Opioid Wisely campaign launches with the release of 7 new specialty-specific opioid recommendations. In addition to the opioid recommendations already published, this brings the total number of Choosing Wisely Canada opioid related recommendations to 14. Tune in to see the new recommendations and accompanying patient resources. Joining us will be Dr. David Juurlink, one of Canada’s leading experts on appropriate opioid prescribing, discussing how clinicians can prescribe opioids more safely, as well as some of the barriers to practice change.

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1 Feb 2018

Mastering the Art & Science of Communicating Evidence with Patients

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Sometimes patients don’t fully understand the risks and benefits of treatment options, and sometimes clinicians don’t either! This lack of understanding often leads to overuse. Join us and our Primary Care Co-Lead, Dr. Kimberly Wintemute, for February's Choosing Wisely Talks where will discuss what the literature says clinicians could be doing better in terms of communication with patients - and what tools exist to help them get there.

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4 Jan 2018

Choosing Wisely: We’ve told patients to ask us, but what do WE need to ask ourselves?

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Choosing Wisely Canada encourages patients to ask clinicians 4 questions about tests and treatments they think might be unnecessary. But what questions should clinicians ask themselves? Join us and Dr. Sam Campbell on January 4th for a webinar on 5 questions clinicians should ask themselves to ensure that they are ordering the right test and what results they can expect.

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7 Dec 2017

Beyond the Mask: Implementing Choosing Wisely Recommendations in Anesthesiology

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

For December's Choosing Wisely Talks we will hear from Dr. Chris Harle, Chair of Ontario Anesthesiologist on how they developed their Beyond The Mask Choosing Wisely Implementation Guide, and how it could be scaled nationally.

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28 Nov 2017

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and Canadian Patient Safety Institute ASPIRE Workshop

Nov 28, 9:00am EST - Dec 1, 5:00pm EST

Taking place in Ottawa, Ontario, the ASPIRE program is a national faculty development certificate program dedicated to advancing the teaching and education of patient safety, quality improvement and resource stewardship.

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22 Nov 2017

Practising Wisely Day

8:00am EST - 5:00pm EST

Hosted by the Ontario College of Family Physicians at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto, Practising Wisely will focus on reducing over-prescribing, over-imaging, over-screening and over-monitoring.

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18 Nov 2017

Lab Utilization Symposium

9:00am EST - 5:00pm EST

Hosted by St. Michael's Hospital, at the Chesnut Conference Centre in Toronto, Lab Utilization Symposium will focus on strategies for improving best practices in lab medicine.

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8 Nov 2017

College of Family Physicians of Canada Family Medicine Forum 2017

Nov 8, 9:00am EST - Nov 11, 5:00pm EST

Taking place at Palais des congrès de Montréal, Québec, Family Medicine Forum is an annual conference for family physicians, hosted by the College of Family Physicians of Canada.

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2 Nov 2017

Antibiotic Wisely: Sharing Proven Strategies to Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Use

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Just in time for Antibiotic Awareness Week, Dr. Jerome Leis, Physician Lead of Antimicrobial Stewardship and Medical Director of Infection Prevention & Control at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, will share with Choosing Wisely Talks participants interventions proven to be effective in reducing unnecessary antibiotic use across different healthcare settings.

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25 Oct 2017

Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario: 2017 Conference

Oct 25, 9:00am EST - Oct 26, 5:00pm EST

Taking place at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto, Ontario, AFHTO's 'Improving Care Together' focuses on optimizing use of resources and reducing unnecessary treatments. The program will highlight how to make the most of opportunities and minimize challenges, both locally and regionally, to improve health, health care, and value for the people of Ontario.

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5 Oct 2017

How Small Changes Make a Big Difference: Alberta & Manitoba Vitamin D Testing Case Studies

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

For October's webinar tune in to hear from Dr. Christopher Naugler, Choosing Wisely Alberta, and Ms. Sarah Kirby, Choosing Wisely Manitoba, about how their respective provinces saw 91.4% and 86% reductions in vitamin D testing, as well as how the strategies they used might be applied to other types of routine testing.

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7 Sep 2017

Choosing Wisely Talks: Back to School: Students & Trainees Choosing Wisely

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

For our season premiere, and back to school special, Choosing Wisely Talks we will be joined by Dr. Neil Kalra, Dr. Chris Hillis, and Karen Born, PhD to learn how residents and trainees are implementing the campaign in specialties such as radiology or through local quality improvement projects.

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17 Aug 2017

Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017: Towards Responsible Global Solutions

Aug 17, 9:00am EST - Aug 19, 5:00pm EST

Hosted by the Québec Medical Association at the Québec City Convention Centre, Preventing Overdiagnosis 2017 will be the first bilingual conference on overuse and too much medicine.

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1 Jun 2017

Choosing Wisely Talks: Overutilization in Lab Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Michelle Sholzberg, Dr. Lisa Hicks, and Dr. Julie Gilmour reviewed pervasive patterns of overutilization and discussed strategies to address this phenomenon without negatively impacting care.

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4 May 2017

Choosing Wisely Talks: Behavioural Sciences 101: How Behavioural Insights Can Help Reduce Unnecessary Care

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Meera Paleja will discusses how Behavioural Insights have provided alternative approaches to tackling behaviour change challenges in the healthcare domain, and how this approach may be useful in achieving Choosing Wisely’s goals.

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6 Apr 2017

Choosing Wisely Talks: Taking Action on Overuse Framework and Change Package for Reducing Low-Value Care

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Michael Parchman, Senior Investigator, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and the Director of the MacColl Center for Health Care Innovation, explained how the Taking Action on Overuse framework and change package can be used as a roadmap for engaging care teams in reducing unnecessary care and making efforts last.

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2 Mar 2017

Choosing Wisely Talks: Advancing Patient Engagement Through Information Design

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Shawn Dowling and Ms. Heather Hair, from Alberta’s Emergency Strategic Clinical Network (ESCN), informed participants about their infographic-based patient implementation strategy on CT scans for MTBI.

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27 Feb 2017

Choosing Wisely Canada National Meeting 2017

9:00am MST - 5:00pm MST

The 2017 Choosing Wisely Canada National Meeting was held on Monday, February 27, 2017 in Calgary, Alberta, hosted by Choosing Wisely Alberta.

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2 Feb 2017

Choosing Wisely Talks: Say Yes to Less: Making it Easier to Choosing Wisely at SickKids, Toronto

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Jeremy Friedman of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, addressed the importance of Choosing Wisely in pediatric practice, and discussed SickKids’ own Choosing Wisely ‘top 5’ list.

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12 Jan 2017

Choosing Wisely Talks: Deprescribing in Primary Care

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Kimberly Wintemute, Ms. Emelyn Barlett, and Ms. Kate Walsh of Toronto focused on deprescribing in primary care.

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1 Dec 2016

Choosing Wisely Talks: Choosing Wisely Canada Holiday Special: A Year in Review & Snapshot of What’s to Come

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Choosing Wisely Canada co-founders, Dr. Wendy Levinson, Chair, and Tai Huynh, Campaign Director, highlighted the collective progress of the Choosing Wisely Canada community in 2016.

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3 Nov 2016

Choosing Wisely Talks: Hone Your Skills: Are You An Effective Deprescriber? Tackling sedative-hypnotic drugs in older adults

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Cara Tannenbaum, the Principal Investigator of the EMPOWER trial, shared the evidence-based benzodiazepine deprescribing tool she created for community-dwelling seniors.

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6 Oct 2016

Choosing Wisely Talks: Choosing Wisely and Patient-Centredness: Mutually Exclusive? A Primary Care Perspective

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Anthony Train, Calgary, and Dr. Kimberly Wintemute, Toronto, focused on four common clinical scenarios in family medicine that illustrated the tension family docs face when they need to say no to patient requests for low-value care.

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8 Sep 2016

Choosing Wisely Talks: Tackling Overuse in Hospitals, Sinai Health System, Toronto

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Christine Soong, from Sinai Health System (SHS), Toronto, presented their hospital-based Choosing Wisely interventions to reduce overuse.

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2 Jun 2016

Choosing Wisely Talks: Lose the Tube: Reducing Inappropriate Catheter Use at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Jerome Leis, Infectious Diseases specialist and general internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, discussed his work on reducing inappropriate catheter use at Sunnybrook.

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5 May 2016

Choosing Wisely Talks: Canadian Institute for Health Information: Pan-Canadian Indicators of Overuse

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Leads from the Canadian Institute for Health Information discussed three Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations that are being measured across multiple regions: mammography screening, antipsychotic use for insomnia in kids and preoperative testing in low risk surgery.

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7 Apr 2016

Choosing Wisely Talks: Kaiser Permanente of Georgia’s Choosing Wisely Regional Implementation

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Scott Pugel, Kaiser Permanente Georgia, discussed their evidence-based care initiatives.

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30 Mar 2016

Choosing Wisely Canada National Meeting 2016

9:00am EST - 5:00pm EST

On Wednesday, March 30th, 2016 Choosing Wisely Canada held its Inaugural National Meeting at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon in the Toronto Reference Library.

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3 Mar 2016

Choosing Wisely Talks: Choosing Wisely at Fletcher Allen Health, University of Vermont

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Justin Stinnett-Donnelly presented the grassroots Choosing Wisely approach he and Dr. Virginia Hood’s led at Fletcher Allen Health Care, University of Vermont.

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4 Feb 2016

Choosing Wisely Talks: Appropriate Use of Antipsychotics in Long Term Care, Seniors Health Strategic Clinical Network of Alberta Health Services

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Mollie Cole, Manager of Seniors Health Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta Health Services, presented on behalf of the Appropriate Use of Antipsychotics (AUA) Toolkit Working Group.

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14 Jan 2016

Choosing Wisely Talks: Making Choosing Wisely Bloody Easy! Nova Scotia Health Authority & Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Irene Sadek, from Nova Scotia Health Authority, and Dr. Yulia Lin, from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, presented local efforts to improve the quality of transfusion practice such as single vs. double unit transfusion, and hemoglobin thresholds.

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3 Dec 2015

Choosing Wisely Talks: Choosing Wisely Canada’s 2015 Year in Review

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Choosing Wisely Canada core team members presented the new and exciting initiatives underway in 2015.

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5 Nov 2015

Choosing Wisely Talks: Choosing Wisely at St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Lisa Hicks, hematologist and Choosing Wisely physician lead at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto presented their newest implementation projects.

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1 Oct 2015

Choosing Wisely Talks: Choosing Wisely Manitoba, Diagnostic Services Manitoba & George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Eric Bohm and Jim Slater, Diagnostic Services Manitoba & George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation, presented on pre-operative testing audit & feedback trials that were conducted in Manitoba and their communications toolkit for physicians and other healthcare providers.

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3 Sep 2015

Choosing Wisely Talks: North York General Hospital Choosing Wisely Implementation, Toronto

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Donna McRitchie, Vice President of Medical and Academic Affairs, and Mark Fam, Program Director of Strategy and Diagnostics, explained how North York General Hospital reduced test ordering by 40% in the Emergency Department.

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4 Jun 2015

Choosing Wisely Talks: Choosing Wisely Canada Measurement Overview

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Sacha Bhatia, Choosing Wisely Canada’s Evaluation Lead, focused on measurement presented initiatives underway in several different provinces.

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7 May 2015

Choosing Wisely Talks: Choosing Wisely Alberta & Partnerships for Implementation

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Medical leaders from across Alberta shared their experiences in implementing Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations and partnering for success.

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2 Apr 2015

Choosing Wisely Talks: Choosing Wisely at the University of California, San Francisco

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Christopher Moriates, Co-chair, Costs of Care/ABIM Foundation Teaching Value & Choosing Wisely Challenge, discussed the Choosing Wisely implementation experience at UCSF.

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5 Mar 2015

Choosing Wisely Talks: Overview of Implementation Approaches: Canadian & US Experience to Date

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Tai Huynh, Choosing Wisely Canada’s Campaign Director, reflected on the various ways in which organizations in Canada and the United States are implementing Choosing Wisely recommendations.

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5 Feb 2015

Choosing Wisely Talks: Reducing Clinical Variation at Sutter Health, Sacramento, California

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Dr. Michael van Duren, Vice President of Variation Reduction at Sutter Health in California, discussed their experience with using data in conversations with physicians, and practice patterns as they relate to the overuse of certain tests, treatments or procedures.

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8 Jan 2015

Choosing Wisely Talks: Nova Scotia Health Authority, Vancouver Coastal Health & Providence Health Care

12:00pm EST - 1:00pm EST

Geoff Wilson, Director of Patient and Public Engagement at Nova Scotia Health Authority (formerly Capital Health), presented their patient and public focused communications plan for January – April 2015.

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