ASH recognizes Choosing Wisely champions
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ASH recognized three Choosing Wisely Champions during the ASH Annual Meeting and Exposition, held last month in Atlanta.
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation’s Choosing Wisely campaign is designed to reduce unnecessary expenses without sacrificing quality care. The goal is to encourage patient-provider conversations about the necessity and potential harm of certain procedures.
Through this initiative, ASH identified 15 commonly used hematology treatments, tests and procedures that clinicians and patients should question.
Choosing Wisely champions have implemented successful efforts at their institutions to advance the goals of this effort and improve quality at their institutions.
The newest ASH Choosing Wisely champions are:
- Thomas Bodley, MD, of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, for helping to reduce unnecessary and repetitive diagnostic phlebotomy in the ICU;
- Srila Gopal, MD, of University of California, San Diego, for leading an effort to establish same-day infusion treatment protocols for uncomplicated sickle cell vaso-occlusive crises using a telemedicine platform; and
- Matthew T. McEvoy, MD, of Texas Children’s Hospital, for helping to create a risk-adapted approach to reduce variability and optimize management for pediatric nutritional iron deficiency anemia in the ED.
“Each year through Choosing Wisely, ASH recognizes and highlights important implementation efforts that improve the quality of care for patients,” Ming Y. Lim, MBBCH, MS, assistant professor in the division of hematology and hematologic malignancies at University of Utah Health and chair of the ASH subcommittee on stewardship and systems-based hematology, said in a society-issued press release. “This year’s Choosing Wisely champions noticed specific gaps in quality care at their institutions, dedicated time and research to develop implementable strategies, and as a result made direct, measurable improvements for their patients.”
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