What is it about?
The ABIM "choosing wisely" campaign may not fit well with orthopaedic surgery. Orthopaedic patients need "insider information" to help them determine if a treatment suits them, not a list of procedures to be uniformly avoided
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Why is it important?
Too much orthopaedic care may be delivered not because the procedures are bad but rather ill suited to the patient and his or her circumstance
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This page is a summary of: Not the Last Word: Choosing Wisely, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-015-4490-8.
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