DynaMed™ Now Includes Choosing Wisely Canada Recommendations
Ipswich, Mass. (PRWEB) June 16, 2014 -- Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations are now available through the evidence-based clinical decision support tool DynaMed™ from EBSCO Health. Having the recommendations as a part of DynaMed gives healthcare providers access to valuable information at the point of care.
Choosing Wisely Canada aims to help physicians and patients make smart and effective choices to ensure high-quality care by having conversations about unnecessary tests, treatments and procedures. The recommendations are the result of Canadian national specialty societies identifying tests, treatments, or procedures that are commonly used but not supported by evidence and/or could expose patients to unnecessary harm.
Choosing Wisely Canada is modeled after the Choosing Wisely campaign in the United States, an initiative of the ABIM Foundation. The Canadian campaign has been developed in partnership with the Canadian Medical Association and involves more than 30 specialty societies. The recommendations are not meant to be used to establish coverage decisions or exclusions but to spur conversations about what is appropriate and necessary treatment.
Recommendations can currently be found in the “Choosing Wisely Canada” topic in DynaMed. Additionally, the Canadian Medical Association and DynaMed editors are working together to determine how to best integrate the recommendations into the relevant individual topics in a way that maximizes their visibility in the flow of patient care where they are most needed.
The specialty societies that are providing the recommendations for Choosing Wisely Canada are:
• Canadian Association of General Surgeons
• Canadian Association of Radiologists
• Canadian Cardiovascular Society
• Canadian Geriatrics Society
• Canadian Orthopaedic Association
• Canadian Rheumatology Association
• Canadian Society of Internal Medicine
• Canadian Medical Association’s Forum on General and Family Practice Issues
• College of Family Physicians of Canada
Updated daily, Dynamed provides doctors and other healthcare providers with clinically organized summaries at the point of care. Several studies have shown that DynaMed provides the most useful information to healthcare professionals at the point of care. DynaMed ranked highest among 10 online clinical resources in a study in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. It also had the highest overall performance in the disease reference product category in the last two reports report on clinical decision support resources by KLAS, a research firm that specializes in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare vendors. DynaMed was also shown to be the most current point-of-care reference tool in a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
DynaMed is one of the point-of-care products from EBSCO Health, the leading provider of clinical decision support solutions for the healthcare industry. For more information about DynaMed or clinical decision support solutions from EBSCO Health part of EBSCO Information Services, please visit: https://dynamed.ebscohost.com.
About EBSCO Health
EBSCO Health, part of EBSCO Information Services, is a leading provider of clinical decision support solutions, healthcare business intelligence, and medical research information for the healthcare industry. EBSCO Health users include professionals in medicine, nursing, and allied health. Flagship products include CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, clinical e-books and e-journals, EBSCO Discovery Service™, licensed databases (such as MEDLINE®), plus EBSCONET®. EBSCO databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the electronic resource favored by libraries around the world.
About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 375 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all medical professionals (doctors, nurses, medical librarians, social workers, hospital administrators, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as CINAHL®, DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™, Patient Education Reference Center™, Rehabilitation Reference Center™, Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source™ and SocINDEX™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as MEDLINE®, PsycARTICLES® and PsycINFO®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: http://www.ebsco.com, or contact: information(at)ebsco(dot)com.
Kathleen McEvoy, EBSCO Information Services, http://www.ebsco.com, +1 (800) 653-2726 Ext: 2594, [email protected]
Share this article