Choosing Wisely
These links may help you to be a wiser healthcare consumer. Patient-friendly resources from specialty societies and consumer reports.
- Allergy tests: When you need them and when you don’t
- Antibiotics: When children need them for respiratory illness
- Bone-density tests: When you need them…
- Cancer care at the end of life: When to choose supportive care
- Chest X-rays before surgery: When you need them…
- Choosing pain relievers with kidney disease/heart problems
- Chronic kidney disease: Making hard choices
- Colonoscopy: When you need it…
- Drugs to boost white blood cells for chemotherapy patients: When you need them…
- Echocardiography for heart valve disease
- EKGs and exercise stress tests: When you need them…
- Hard decisions about cancer
- Heart imaging before surgery: When you need them…
- Heart tests before surgery : When you need an imaging test…
- IgG replacement therapy: When you need it…
- Imaging and tumor markers for breast cancer: When you need them…
- Imaging stress tests: When you need them…
- Imaging tests after a heart procedure: When you need them…
- Imaging tests for a headache: When you need them…
- Imaging tests for early prostate cancer: When you need them…
- Imaging tests for heart disease: When you need them…
- Imaging tests for lower-back pain: When you need them…
- Imaging tests for ovarian cysts: When you need them…
- Pap tests: When you need them…
- Spirometry for asthma: When you need it…
- Stress tests for chest pain: When you need an imaging test….
- Testing after heart procedures: When you need a nuclear stress test…
- Testing for Alzheimer’s Disease: When you need a brain scan…
- Treating blocked leg arteries: When you need a procedure…
- Treating heartburn and GERD
- Treating migraine headaches: Some drugs should rarely be used
- Treating sinusitus: Don’t rush to antibiotics
- Treatment for erection problems: When you need testosterone treatment…
- Wellness Physicals
- Why scheduling early delivery of your baby is not a good idea
