Intended for healthcare professionals
Reducing overuse in healthcare
The BMJ and the Choosing Wisely international collaboration established a partnership in 2019 on a series in the education section of the journal which describe evidence-based changes to practice to reduce overuse in healthcare. The Choosing Wisely international collaboration represents Choosing Wisely campaigns across more than 30 countries globally. Choosing Wisely campaigns are clinician-led and develop specialty-specific, evidence-based recommendations on reducing overuse in healthcare. Articles in the series focus on priority overuse topics related to Choosing Wisely campaign recommendations across multiple countries. Articles highlight the evidence behind priority overuse topics, alongside tools and resources to help make changes to practice.
We welcome submissions from international, multi-specialty teams of authors on priority overuse topics related to Choosing Wisely campaign recommendations. Author teams are encouraged to be from multiple countries, and include a patient coauthor with lived experience to ensure that the content reflects a diversity of perspectives and be relevant to the global readership of The BMJ.
- Using antibiotics wisely for respiratory tract infection in the era of covid-19
- Do not routinely offer imaging for uncomplicated low back pain
- Advise non-pharmacological therapy as first line treatment for chronic insomnia
- Reducing unnecessary red blood cell transfusion in hospitalised patients
- Avoid doing chest x rays in infants with typical bronchiolitis
- When and how to deintensify type 2 diabetes care
- Managing neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with dementia
- Discussing prognosis and what matters most for people with serious illness
- Do not routinely test for Vitamin D levels
- Reducing unnecessary pre-operative testing
- Reduce unnecessary use of proton pump inhibitors
- Reducing routine inpatient blood testing
