Recommendations against low value clinical practices. Are they useful?

As the Choosing Wisely campaign enters its final stages, Owen Dyer looks at whether it can change practice http://t.co/B8BfPvPdED
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Owen Dyer, a journalist and regular contributor to the British Medical Journal, following the Choosing Wisely campaign from the ABIM Foundation (a list of recommendations for clinical practice that both doctors and patients should question) in the US, makes an assessment of whether the lists of recommendations against low value clinical practices will manage to change the status quo or, on the contrary, the dynamics of the system will engulf them as it has done with many other initiatives.