April 5, 2023 – To give physicians and nurses the ability to focus more on providing clinical care while also eliminating unnecessary and arduous administrative duties, U of Michigan Health is launching “Choosing Wisely,” an initiative to reduce burnout for clinicians and improve patient satisfaction.
The first step of the Choosing Wisely program includes surveying clinicians — anyone who delivers direct patient care — to “identify, design and rigorously and rapidly evaluate specific projects focused on improving the value of clinical care.”
Before rolling out the initiative, a team at U-M Health is launching a workgroup to seek feedback from doctors and nurses about the type of administrative work that can be scaled back to allow more patient-facing time. “Low value” administrative duties are those that “create unnecessary burdens for the clinician workforce.
Examples of these types of duties that Choosing Wisely aims to curb include time-consuming charting features, documentation processes and signature requirements, mandatory compliance and risk-management training, and prior authorization processes, among others.