The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is again participating in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Choosing Wisely campaign designed to streamline healthcare delivery. The announcement stated that ASCO and the ABIM Foundation hope the campaign will encourage proper use of diagnostic and treatment modalities; avoid overuse or misuse of these interventions; improve patient quality of life and outcomes; stimulate discussions about these subjects between physicians and patients; and lead to a culture of routine evaluation of cost, value, and benefit of interventions in a critically burdened healthcare system.
The new recommendations, announced at the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, are as follows:
Full details of these recommendations and the Choosing Wisely campaign can be accessed at www.asco.org/topfive.
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