Chicago AHCJ Chapter: Overtesting and overtreatment in American medicine

From debates over preventive screenings to wasteful use of high-cost imaging or emergency care, the pressure is on to rein in unnecessary, redundant or ineffective care.
We’ll examine one effort, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Choosing Wisely initiative. So far, more than 50 medical societies have offered up more than 200 tests, treatments and other interventions that “physicians and patients should question.”