Bridging the Gap With Choosing Wisely Recommendations: What Laboratory Topics Matter Most to Other Medical Specialty Societies?

2019 ◽  
Vol 152 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S143-S143
Author(s):  
Barbara Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Pap Smear ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
Choosing Wisely ◽  
Topic Area ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Smear Testing

Abstract Introduction This study sought to evaluate the nature and frequency of laboratory recommendations made by medical societies other than ASCP. Methods Review of all 2012 to 2018 ABIM Choosing Wisely (CW) non-ASCP laboratory recommendations and categorization of recommendations per topic area. Results There are 107 total recommendations made by other medical specialties that involve laboratory medicine. The most common recommendations are (1) Transfusion Medicine: to minimize transfusion of PRCs (19 recommendations, 18%); (2) Women’s Health: Pap smear testing, other women’s health testing (18 recommendations, 17%); and (3) General Laboratory: reducing repetitive routine laboratory tests (10 recommendations, 9%). Most (64, 60%) recommendations addressed screening while 29 (27%) focused on treatment and 14 (13%) were related to monitoring disease. Conclusion Almost one-half (44%) of all recommendations fell into three common areas and there were more recommendations related to screening for disease than for treatment or monitoring. For Choosing Wisely to achieve increasing success, increasing efforts are needed to disseminate this information, promote multidisciplinary effective test utilization, and encourage continued laboratory medicine recommendations from all medical stakeholders.

scholarly journals Should Women's Health be a Medical Specialty

1970 ◽  
pp. 10-12
Author(s):  
Taline Papazian
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Old People ◽  
Growing Body

A few months ago, I came across several articles about a new specialty in medicine focusing on women's health. The proponents of this specialty were concerned with women's total health needs much as pediatrics is with children or geriatrics with old people. "Its practitioners would be trained in everything from managing menopause to spotting abuse, with a focus on the growing body of research on how diseases and drugs act differently in women than in men"

scholarly journals Gender of internal medicine resident impacts cancer preventive care for women

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shyanne Hefley ◽  
Tetyana L Vasylyeva ◽  
Maria Salguero ◽  
Saif Al-Humaish ◽  
Karen Cutts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Pap Smear ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Cervical Screening ◽  
Internal Medicine Resident ◽  
Gender Disparity ◽  
Female Patients

Mammography and cervical screening are effective methods for early cancer detection in women. Recent reports showed that 69% of women ³45 years had a mammogram in the past 2 years and 16-55% of women had a Pap smear regularly. Internal medicine (IM) physicians are crucial players in women's health management and literature has identified that a physician’s gender impacts patient management in many areas of healthcare.  We investigated mammogram and Pap smear recommendations by IM residents and examined differences in approaching women’s health issues between female and male residents. With IRB approval, one-hundred charts of new female patients were reviewed, which included female patients 45 years or older seen by IM residents for their first visit. All patients completed a questionnaire concerning previous medical conditions and care as part of clinic routine. Patient chart information, recommendations for mammogram and cervical cancer screening by the resident were recorded, along with the gender of the resident and supervising attending.  The mean age of the patients was 61±9.3 years. Female residents were more likely to recommend a mammogram compared to male residents (36.7% and 16.4%, respectively).  No significant differences in Pap smear recommendations were observed between female and male residents (9.3% and 10.1%, respectively). Attending physician’s gender did not influence screening recommendations.  The recommendation rate for female patients to obtain important screening mammograms and Pap smears was low. These results are consistent with previous literature and indicate an urgent need for improved women’s health education in residency, with special attention to male residents.   Keywords: Cancer prevention, Breast cancer, Cervical Cancer, Primary Care, Gender Disparity

scholarly journals biotechnet Switzerland

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-224
Author(s):  
Marc E. Pfeifer ◽  
Dieter Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Diagnostic Testing ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Rapid Testing ◽  
Conference Center

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised in 2020 an unprecedented need for diagnostic testing, especially rapid testing, for SARS-CoV-2 infections. POC diagnostic tools, however, have clearly also importance in other domains such as oncology and women's health, because of the efficiency and convenience factors playing an increasingly important role in a mobile (and sometimes confined) and digitally connected world. Out of necessity, the 3rd edition of the Swiss Symposium in POC Diagnostics, originally planned to take place at the La Poste Conference Center in Visp, was smoothly run online with 170 engaged participants from science, industry and laboratory medicine.

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