2021 ASCP Choosing Wisely Champions Program Now Accepting Nominations

ASCP’s Choosing Wisely Champions program is seeking to recognize successful laboratory related initiatives by pathologists, laboratory professionals, individual clinicians and clinical teams for their commitment to the ABIM Foundation’s Choosing Wisely Campaign. The ASCP will select three Champions to present at the 2021 Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass. 

Since ASCP joined the Choosing Wisely campaign in 2013, members have been advancing its ideals intended to encourage clinicians and patients to question which tests are medically necessary. Effective test utilization reduces test overuse and improves the nation’s healthcare system.

“The Choosing Wisely Champions program seeks to recognize individuals for their objective contributions to the campaign, inspire clinicians seeking to implement Choosing Wisely in their own practice, and demonstrate how they are driving change in health care,” said Lee H. Hilborne, MD, MPH, DLM(ASCP)^CM, FASCP, Chair, ASCP Effective Test Utilization Subcommittee. “We can learn from one another by highlighting exemplars.”

The following criteria should be considered when nominating an organization, team or individual as an ASCP 2021 Choosing Wisely Champion: 

•              Advanced Choosing Wisely in their practice
•              Contributed in the development of Society recommendations
•              Educated ASCP members about Choosing Wisely and/or recommendations
•              Conducted measurement of recommendations
•              Validated research of importance of recommendations
•              Demonstrated leadership of a localized Choosing Wisely effort
•              Served as a spokesperson for the Society or campaign

Nominations must include a brief description (300 words maximum) of how laboratory medicine Choosing Wisely recommendations have been implemented and include specifics (e.g., objective performance improvement data) regarding how those contributions have advanced the goals of the campaign.

Choosing Wisely is focused on evidence-based findings; hence, submissions must include relevant supporting data, metrics, articles and impact reports. Applications not showing specific findings and impact will not be considered. Finalists are selected based on the responses to the criteria listed above and the impact discussed.

The deadline for submitting nominations is February 19, 2021. Please submit all materials to Edna Garcia, MPH, Director, Scientific Engagement and Research, ASCP Institute of Science, Technology and Policy, at edna.garcia@ascp.org.

For more information regarding ASCP's advocacy initiatives and policy positions, please contact ASCP's Center for Public Policy at (202) 408-1110.

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