Will AI Help or Harm Overuse?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly gaining traction in health care, offering the potential to streamline processes and improve efficiencies. But will AI help or harm efforts to reduce low-value tests and treatments? Dr. Amol Verma, Clinician-Scientist at Unity Health Toronto, will share the challenges and opportunities of integrating AI into health systems and discuss the critical role of providers in ensuring its appropriate use.

Dr. Amol Verma, Clinician-Scientist, Unity Health Toronto, Co-Lead, GEMINI

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the potential benefits and risks of AI for overuse in health care.
• Explore strategies for integrating AI responsibly into health systems to improve patient outcomes.
• Identify the role of providers in guiding AI implementation and minimizing unintended consequence.

Learn how to tackle overuse in your practice through workshop sessions and abstract presentations featuring innovative approaches from across the country. Participants can select one of the following sessions to attend.

Easing Workload Burden by Choosing Wisely

Primary care practices across the country face significant workload challenges. Reducing low-value tests and treatments—those that provide little or no benefit—is an opportunity to ease this burden while improving patient care. This session will offer practical guidance and effective strategies to streamline workflows and reduce unnecessary demands on providers.

Dr. Janet Reynolds, Primary Care Co-Lead, Choosing Wisely Canada
Dr. Guylène Thériault, Primary Care Co-Lead, Choosing Wisely Canada
Dr. René Wittmer, President, Choosing Wisely Quebec

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how reducing low-value care can alleviate unnecessary workload burden.
• Identify examples of low-value tests or treatments to eliminate or reduce in primary care practices.
• Practice effective strategies for discussing low-value tests and treatments with patients.

Setting a Target: Antipsychotic Use in Long-Term Care

Recent data shows antipsychotics are often inappropriately prescribed to older adults in long-term care (LTC) who are not experiencing psychosis. This session will explore efforts to address this issue, including measuring inappropriate use, conducting a Delphi process, and creating outreach strategies to set a national target for the appropriate antipsychotic use in Canada.

Elizabeth Carson, Clinical Research Manager, Canada’s Drug Agency
Norma Hall, Program Consultant, Canadian Institute for Health Information
Tai Huynh, Campaign Director, Choosing Wisely Canada

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize current trends of inappropriate antipsychotic use in LTC.
• Explore strategies and methodologies for developing consensus on appropriate antipsychotic use.
• Discuss the development of a national target to promote appropriate antipsychotic use in Canada.

Abstracts on Tackling Lab Utilization in Canada 

Abstracts feature Choosing Wisely initiatives and innovative approaches from across the country. This session will feature efforts to tackle the challenges of lab utilization in Canada.

Barriers, Priorities, and Collaboration to Achieve Lab Wisely Goals
Dr. Amanda VanSpronsen, Associate Professor, University of Alberta

Re-Purposing the Ordering of Routine laboratory Tests (RePORT)
Dr. Anshula Ambasta. General Internal Physician, Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesia, University of British Columbia

Leveraging a Regulatory College Partnership Program to Improve Laboratory Test Utilization
Dr. Hedieh Molla Ghanbari, Hospitalist and Clinician Educator, Sinai Health
Dr. Felix Leung, Clinical Biochemist, Sinai Health

Review of the 2024 Minimum Retesting Intervals for Lab Tests
Dr. Alex Singer, Family Physician, Associate Professor, University of Manitoba

Learning Objectives:

• Describe efforts to implement change in lab utilization.
• Illustrate successful examples of improvement efforts to tackle low-value labs at the individual and system levels.
• Identify tools and resources that can support clinicians and organizations in reducing low-value lab testing.

Abstracts on Choosing Wisely and Climate Action

Abstracts feature Choosing Wisely initiatives and innovative approaches from across the country. This session will feature initiatives tackling waste, harm, and our carbon footprint.

A Province-Wide Approach to Discontinue Desflurane Purchasing in NL
Krista Mahoney, Implementation Lead, Quality of Care NL

Putting Anesthetic Emissions of Desflurane Into Bed
Rizwan Ahmed, Director of Pharmacy, Southern Health-Santé Sud

Advocating for Sustainable Healthcare within Medical Organizations: Lessons from Rheumatology
Dr. Stephanie Tom, Division Head, Rheumatology, Trillium Health Partners

Building Climate Culture in the Healthcare System
Keith Parsons, Provincial Director, Planning and Policy, NL Health Services

Advancing Climate Action Through Standards and Accreditation
Vishal Jain, Director, Health Equity, Health Standards Organization

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize the important role clinicians play in leading change in the climate crisis.
• Describe practical examples of environmentally sustainable initiatives to reduce overuse in practice.
• Discuss tools and resources to support clinicians in implementing environmentally sustainable practices.

Learn how to tackle overuse in your practice through workshop sessions and abstract presentations featuring innovative approaches from across the country. Participants can select one of the following sessions to attend.

Getting Back on Course: Advancing the Appropriate Use of Antipsychotic Medications in LTC

Since the onset of the pandemic, potentially inappropriate antipsychotic use in long-term care (LTC) has been on the rise. What’s driving this trend, and how can it be reversed? This workshop offers a step-by-step approach to advancing the appropriate use of antipsychotics. Learn practical strategies and approaches from Healthcare Excellence Canada and the Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada, who have supported staff in Canadian LTC settings to effectively address this issue. Hear from experts who have successfully implemented change and learn how to adapt their approaches to your own LTC home.

– Neil Drimer, Director, Health Innovation Programs, Healthcare Excellence Canada
– Carolyn Hoffman, Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Safe Medication Practices Canada

Learning Objectives:

• Describe effective approaches in advancing the appropriate use of antipsychotics.
• Describe helpful strategies for implementing practice changes in LTC settings.
• Discuss resources to support and implement the appropriate use of antipsychotics in LTC settings.

Unlocking Nursing’s Full Potential: Embracing Best Practices of Quality Improvement for Nursing Education

This bilingual guided session explores how nursing expertise can drive sustainable best practices, including implementation of Choosing Wisely recommendations. Through a critical examination of nursing education, participants will discuss innovations that engage nurses in continuous quality improvement.

Marie Chantal Leclerc, Professor, Department of Nursing, Université du Québec en Outaouais
Maryanne D’Arpino, Chief Nursing Executive, VP, Quality and Professional Practice, Spectrum Health Care
Jacquie Follis, Nursing Lead, Choosing Wisely Canada
Julie Weir, Long-Term Care Clinician Co-Lead, Choosing Wisely Canada

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze barriers and enablers to nursing leadership in quality improvement initiatives.
• Identify key competencies, knowledge, and values needed to strengthen the nursing profession.
• Outline educational strategies to enhance leadership, mentorship, and professional empowerment.
• Develop approaches to ensure sustainability and transferability of nursing education into practice.

Abstracts on Resource Stewardship Perspectives

Abstracts feature Choosing Wisely initiatives and innovative approaches from across the country. This session will feature initiatives on understanding perspectives of resource stewardship in health care.

Choosing Wisely in Post-Pandemic Canada: Perspectives on Resource Stewardship
Div Patel, Medical Student, Northern Ontario School of Medicine University
Nathan Jeffery, Medical Student, Northern Ontario School of Medicine University

Patient-Centred Public Awareness: Choosing Wisely Together to Reduce Low-Value Care Through Conversation
Sarah Porter, Information Consultant, Island Health
Charuta Sahasrabudhe, Medical Student, University of British Columbia

Collaborating with Indigenous Peoples to Address Priorities for Medication Appropriateness
Amber Ruben, Pharmacist,  Misericordia Community Hospital
Jennie Herbin, Patient and Community Engagement, Canadian Medication Appropriateness & Deprescribing Network

Learning Objectives:

• Describe examples of strategies to understand perceptions of overuse and resource stewardship in practice.
• Recognize the important role of integrating diverse perspectives into quality and system improvement efforts.
• Discuss how broad engagement with patients, providers, and communities can inform the development of effective education tools.

Abstracts on Caring for Older Adults

Abstracts feature Choosing Wisely initiatives and innovative approaches from across the country. This session will feature initiatives on appropriate prescribing and reducing overuse in the care of older adults.

Rate of Inappropriate Benzodiazepine and Sedative-Hypnotic Prescribing in Hospitalized Older Adults
Dr. Liv Cento, Internal Medicine Resident, University of Toronto

Assessing variation of Antipsychotic, Antidepressant, and Sedative Dispensations to Older Adults in Alberta Between 2021-2023
Sampson Law, Project Manager, Physician Learning Program

Learning Objectives:

• Outline effective approaches for reducing unnecessary testing and treatments in the care of older adults.
• Describe improvement examples to change existing prescribing or practice patterns.
• Discuss resources to support the appropriate care of older adults.

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