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During the conference held in Bergamo on November 16th on the climate emergency and its implications for health, the Handbook for greener Healthcare Services was presented. It will be introduced at the Choosing Wisely International Roundtable 2025 to be held in...

Operating rooms are among the areas of the hospital with the highest environmental impact and Anesthesiologists and Intensive Care physicians with their daily choices can make a decisive contribution to the adoption of more sustainable practices: anaesthetic gases are...

From Monday 4 March 2024, the new distance learning course of the National Federation of Medical Doctors’ and Dentists’ Orders (FNOMCeO) "Choosing Wisely Italy: a tool to improve the appropriateness and quality of care" is available free of charge for Italian doctors...

  After the launch of Green Choosing Wisely (CW) Italy at the June 2022 conference at the IRCCS Mario Negri in Milan in collaboration with ISDE - Doctors for the Environment, ISDE presented 5 recommendations for a Green General Practitioner, developed by the ISDE...

AIGO (The Italian Association of Hospital Gastroenterologists and Digestive Endoscopists) after having published a position paper and structured other awareness-raising initiatives on the responsibility of professionals towards climate change, defined within the AIGO...

The Italian Society of Pediatrics (SIP) has defined 5 recommendations on SARS-CoV-2 infection in the pediatric-adolescent age. The recommendations were identified within the Pediatric Units of Emilia-Romagna and then shared by the national SIP and the regional...

We are happy to announce that the website dedicated to the person and work of Gianfranco Domenighetti was recently created. Gianfranco Domenighetti, health economist and doctor of social sciences, was born in Lugano on April 13, 1942 and died in Locarno, 75 years old,...

Choosing Wisely Canada launched the STARS movement (Students and Trainees Advocating for Resource Stewardship) in 2015 to introduce the issues of overuse of tests, treatments and procedures as well as responsibility in resource management into medical training....

Editorial on Choosing Wisely by Marco Bobbio and Sandra Vernero on Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 2019. Read the editorial

Article by Marika Werren and colleagues published in Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 2019 on the 5 recommendations of GICR- IACPR in Choosing Wisely Italy, Read the article