Choosing Wisely Nova Scotia

06/26/2025

Inappropriate antipsychotic use in long-term care (LTC) can and should be lower across Canada.
A new target gives a clear path forward to safer, more appropriate prescribing in Canadian LTC homes: ltcmeds.ca

06/23/2025

PPIs are widely used and generally safe, but are often continued longer or at higher doses than necessary. Our updated toolkit offers practical tools to help optimize and deprescribe PPIs.
Download now: https://loom.ly/lAFuQDM

05/13/2025

This , we express our deep gratitude and appreciation to Canadian nursing professionals. Thank you for your leadership, advocacy, and continued commitment to high-quality care.

04/22/2024

Happy ! Join our upcoming Choosing Wisely Talks webinar presented by the Canadian Medical Association on May 15 at 12 PM ET for the launch of 41 new climate-conscious recommendations spanning 20 clinical specialties. Learn more about mitigating environmental harm without compromising patient care: https://choosingwiselycanada.org/event/cwtalks-may2024/

02/23/2024

Registration is now OPEN for the Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) Healthcare Improvement Fellowship! A stream is available, providing fellows with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of & de-implementation science to reduce low-value care

Apply by April 26:
https://bit.ly/cquips-cwc-fellowship-2024

08/10/2021

Practising Wisely will be presented virtually on Saturday, September 25, 2021. It is more than a CPD course. It's a framework that will help you implement good health care stewardship & avoid over-medicalization for your patients. http://nscfp.ca/pw

07/30/2021

Interested in learning about how we can promote environmental sustainability through our healthcare choices? A group of UofT medical students at Project Green Healthcare have created an initiative to help healthcare practitioners learn about how we can promote environmental sustainability through the Choosing Wisely Canada family medicine recommendations (https://www.greenchoosingwisely.com/). Participating in this module will help you learn about the environmental impact of our healthcare choices, and tips on how to create a greener healthcare practice. Moreover, all participants who complete the included surveys will be raffled to win one of three $20 gift cards.

Green Choosing Wisely is a tool for family physicians and medical students in Canada to learn about the impacts of healthcare on the environment, and how following the recommendations set by Choosing Wisely Canada™ can improve care while the environment.

04/19/2021

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lets-talk-informatics-one-person-one-record-and-physician-engagement-tickets-151052475019

04/08/2021

https://canadian-nurse.com/en/articles/issues/2021/march-2021/using-blood-wisely-aims-to-decrease-inappropriate-red-blood-cell-transfusion-practice

02/25/2021

The February magazine of Doctors Nova Scotia is available online. Check it out here: https://doctorsns.com/news-events/doctorsns/archive/2021-02-01

02/25/2021

The START Research Program was the foundation of the Using Blood Wisely initiative that Choosing Wisely Canada has been advancing nationally. Here is a great blog to read all about the START Research program: https://www.blood.ca/en/research/our-research-stories/research-education-discovery/start-study-improving-red-blood-cell-hospitals.

02/22/2021

Here is a link to a very informative read on the rates of C Sections in the province of Nova Scotia.

From 2017 to 2020 about 23 percent of women who fall in the low-risk category had C-sections at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital.