Tag: consumer reports

Medical Tests You May Not Need

Choosing Wisely is part of a multi-year effort of the ABIM Foundation (Advancing Medical Professionalism to Improve Health Care) to help physicians be better stewards of finite health care resources.åÊ The goal of this campaign is to help physicians, patients and other health care stakeholders think and talk about overuse...

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Consumer Reports Assesses Central Line Infections in Hospitals

Some of you may know that Consumer Reports (CR) is also in the health care rating business. I know them best from their work involving nursing homes. Their latest data release has to do with central line infections in hospitals, of which 1.7 million occur each year in U.S. hospitals....

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