2019 Choosing Wisely Australia National Meeting

Using the Patient Activation Measure to improve health outcomes for Australians with chronic illness by Mr James Ansell, Ms Jo Root and Ms Leanne Wells, Consumers Health Forum of Australia

How Hospital Based Order Sets Can Help Drive Practice Change and Significantly Reduce the Harm and Cost Associated with Unwarranted Variation by Lis Herbert and Colin McNeil, Elsevier

Northern Health Consumer Awareness Project: Improving Confidence for Consumers in Using NPS MedicineWise '5 Questions' by Sandy Ayoub and Dr Kristen Pearson, Northern Health

Ask an Informationist, Engaging with the evidence by Michele Gaca and Helen Baxter, Austin Health Sciences Library

Colonoscopy and Australian Healthcare services: Changing the standard of care wisely by Conjoint Professor Anne Duggan, Mr Iain Skinner, Dr Brett Abbenbroek, Mr Chris Leahy, Alice Bhasale, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Engaging for Change: Cutting through the Noise by Pip Brennan, Health Consumers Council (WA)

Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Management at Armadale Health Service by Dr Joel Tate and Jessica Casado, East Metropolitan Health Service

Empowering Consumers in Choosing Wisely and Shared Care at East Metropolitan Health Service by Mrs Rebecca McLean, Mrs Frances Downey, Mrs Jessica Casado, Dr Sumit Sinha-Roy, East Metropolitan Health Service and Royal Perth Bentley Group

Engaging Clinicians as Part of a Choosing Wisely Champions Program to Build Capacity and Sustainability in a tertiary hospital by Mrs Jessica Casado, Dr Sumit Sinha-Roy, Mrs Frances Downey, Dr Joel Tate, Mr Ryan Shepherd, East Metropolitan Health Service and Royal Perth Bentley Group

Supporting Junior Clinical Staff in Undertaking Choosing Wisely Projects within a tertiary hospital by Dr Sumit Sinha-Roy, Dr Michele Delacretaz, Mrs Jessica Casado, Mrs Frances Downey, Dr Joel Tate, Mr Ryan Shepherd, East Metropolitan Health Service and Royal Perth Bentley Group

Clinician Follow-Up of Elevated Glycated Haemoglobin Results in Hospital Inpatients by Timothy Lin, Paul Chubb, Seng Khee Gan, Samuel Vasikaran, Gerard Chew, Royal Perth Hospital and University of Western Australia

Whack-a-mole: An innovative approach to evidence based teaching and assessment of complementary medicines: Changing culture through health professional education and training by A/Prof Basia Diug, Bethany Howard, A/Prof Ken Harvey, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Nudging behaviour change to reduce patient radiation from unnecessary renal colic CTU by Cathryn Dunstan, Gabriel Blecher, M elody Hiew, Angela Melder, Diana Egerton Warburton, Centre for Clinical Effectiveness, Monash Health

Diluting the supply of evidence-poor products: Homeopathy in pharmacy by Dr Chris Freeman, The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia

Improve patient care and reduce healthcare costs by unlocking the power of your data with ILYTIX™ by Kathleen Frost, LTS Health

Choice Architecture: Impact on GP Diagnostic Requesting Patterns - UK Case Studies by Kathleen Frost, LTS Health

Have ideas? We’re Listening. Engaging our consumers, health professionals and community partners to choose wisely. by Megan Giles, Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service

Back to the Future of Social Media? by Jemma Gonzalez, Jason Ealey & Josh Meyers, NPS MedicineWise

QFIRST: Quality Focussed Interventions for the Relief of Symptoms Team by Alex Grosso, Staff Specialist Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Sunshine Coast University Hospital

Reducing Low Value Care in the Department of Critical Care Medicine by Vicky Jones, Associate Nurse Unit Manager, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne

Advocating for scientifically-based, informed choice of therapeutic goods and service by Assoc Prof Ken Harvey, Prof Rob Morrison and Malcolm Vickers, Monash University, Flinders University and Friends of Science in Medicine

Confused patients and confused doctors: the role of CT brain in patients presenting to ED with confusion by Aarane Jeyakumar, Dr Emma Cole, Dr Paul Buntine, Monash University and Eastern Health

To scan or not to scan: Is Box Hill hospital emergency department Choosing Wisely in cases of head injury? by Dr Paul Buntine, L. Reid, Madeline Smith, Aarane Jeyakumar, Eastern Health and Monash University