VT-ILEHP: Patient/Consumer

Choosing Wisely

Description:

• an Initiative of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation
  
• Seeks to encourage physicians, patients, and other healthcare stake holders to talk about medical procedures that may be unnecessary
  
• 26 specialty societies have created lists of "Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question"
  
• Medical specialty societies are collaborating with Consumer Reports to spread the word about unnecessary testing and the need to encourage coversations between healthcare providers and patients/consumers
  

Off-Campus Access:

• Freely available on the Web
  

Search Features:

• Select medical specialty society
  

Healthy People 2020

Description:

• Provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans