Welcome to our second HiQuiPs post highlighting Choosing Wisely, an international movement dedicated to reducing overuse in health care. Variation among providers and organizations in tests and procedures can help to identify areas of overuse and strategies to reduce it. In our first post we discussed sources of variation in healthcare and specifically how variation can be an indicator of unnecessary tests and/or procedures. Through the publication of specialty-specific lists of recommendations, Choosing …
Special HiQuiPs Post – Choosing Wisely Canada and Quality Improvement
Welcome to another HiQuiPs post! This is the first in a series of posts highlighting Choosing Wisely, an international movement that addresses unnecessary tests and treatments, which has spurred many local, national, and international QI initiatives. In our last post, we discussed variation in the efficiency of medical processes and how this can be attributed to random or non-random (special cause) variation. Variation can be seen throughout different processes in the ED. For …