Quality BY AMY LYNN SORREL
Professionalism in action
TMA CHOOSING WISELY GRANT ENDS, BUT PHYSICIANS STILL STRIVE TO CUT OVERUSE OF UNNECESSARY AND POSSIBLY HARMFUL TESTS AND PROCEDURES WHILE PROMOTING SHARED DECISIONMAKING
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TMA Foundation Advisory Council member Nick Shroff, MD, describes Choosing Wisely as a less wasteful approach to improving health care quality and eficiency and says it works because it is physician-driven, patient- centered, and evidence-based.
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exas is Choosing Wisely, thanks to the Texas Medi- cal Association’s efforts
to promote the national initiative, which aims to improve quality and reduce waste by encouraging physicians and patients to discuss medical tests and procedures that may be unnecessary and possibly harmful. March marks the conclusion of
a $50,000 grant TMA and its phil- anthropic arm, the TMA Foun- dation, won to advance Choosing Wisely by raising awareness and helping physicians build its tenets into daily practice. The Ameri- can Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation, Choosing Wisely’s creator, awarded the grant in 2013, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Since its inception in 2012,
PHOTO BY BRETT BUCHANAN March 2015 TEXAS MEDICINE 51
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