Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gabutti, Luca
• Pironi, Michela
• Della Bruna, Roberto
• Heinkel, Juergen
• Clivio, Luca
• Greco, Angela

Titel

Choosing Wisely: from theory to practice

Ist Teil von

• Revue médicale suisse, 2015-10, Vol.11 (491), p.1973

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "Choosing Wisely" is an innovative approach that the Network of Southern Switzerland Public Hospitals has decided to promote. Five standard diagnostic or therapeutic procedures have been chosen to explore the potential benefit of the "Choosing Wisely" initiative: the prescription of benzodiazepines, proton pump inhibitors or antibiotics on discharge from hospital, exposure to ionising radiation in radiological imaging and the number of blood samples taken during hospitalisation. As a first step we compared these variables in the medical and surgical departments of the four major public hospitals in Ticino. We observed significant and unexpected practical differences between specialties and between the different institutions. These results were presented to all concerned healthcare stakeholders. The next steps are to develop continuous monitoring of these indicators and specific recommendations by involving patients in the consciousness-raising process.