Wikipedia:Choosing Wisely/American College of Medical Toxicology and American Academy of Clinical Toxicology

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Articles of interest

Articles relating to American College of Medical Toxicology and American Academy of Clinical Toxicology content
article	traffic in April 2014*	sources cited	change summary
American College of Medical Toxicology	132
American Academy of Clinical Toxicology	98
Homeopathy	100415	1	no evidence exists that homopathic treatment is effective, but that there is evidence that using these treatments produces harm
Dietary supplement	21652	1	Dietary supplements should not be used to treat any disease or as preventive healthcare
Herbalism	21931
Regulation of food and dietary supplements by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration	1613
Chelation therapy	33190	2	Urine testing done after chelation therapy has been associated with harm, including further testing or treatment based on those unreliable results.
Chelation therapy	33190	4	When used properly in response to a diagnosis of harm from metal toxicity, side effects of chelation therapy include...
Urinalysis	26637
Metal toxicity	5429	3	Metal screening tests should not be used unless there is reason to believe that a person has had excessive exposure to metals
Metal toxicity	5429	4	Metal screening tests should not be used unless there is reason to believe that a person has had excessive exposure to metals
Heavy metal (chemistry)	17323
Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid	47944
Dental amalgam controversy	10349	5	removal of amalgam fillings, in addition to being unnecessary health care and likely to cause more mercury exposure than leaving them in place, is expensive
Amalgam (dentistry)	11858
Mercury poisoning	48306

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References

American College of Medical Toxicology; American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (February 2013), "Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question", Choosing Wisely: an initiative of the ABIM Foundation, American College of Medical Toxicology and American Academy of Clinical Toxicology, retrieved 5 December 2013, which cites

1. • Woodward, KN (May 2005). "The potential impact of the use of homeopathic and herbal remedies on monitoring the safety of prescription products". Human & experimental toxicology. 24 (5): 219–33. PMID 16004184.
   • De Smet, PA (Aug 1995). "Health risks of herbal remedies". Drug safety : an international journal of medical toxicology and drug experience. 13 (2): 81–93. PMID 7576267.
   • Farah, MH; Edwards, R; Lindquist, M; Leon, C; Shaw, D (Mar 2000). "International monitoring of adverse health effects associated with herbal medicines". Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety. 9 (2): 105–12. PMID 19025809.
2. • American College of Medical, Toxicology (Mar 2010). "American College of Medical Toxicology position statement on post-chelator challenge urinary metal testing". Journal of medical toxicology : official journal of the American College of Medical Toxicology. 6 (1): 74–5. PMID 20354920.
   • Risher, JF; Amler, SN (Aug 2005). "Mercury exposure: evaluation and intervention the inappropriate use of chelating agents in the diagnosis and treatment of putative mercury poisoning". Neurotoxicology. 26 (4): 691–9. PMID 16009427.
3. • McKay C, Holland M, Nelson L. A call to arms for medical toxicologists: the dose, not the detection, makes the poison. Internet J Med Toxicol. 2003;6(1):1. This source seems not to be pubmed indexed. The Internet Journal of Medical Toxicology might have merged into the The Journal of Medical Toxicology. Strange.
   • Schober, SE; Sinks, TH; Jones, RL; Bolger, PM; McDowell, M; Osterloh, J; Garrett, ES; Canady, RA; Dillon, CF; Sun, Y; Joseph, CB; Mahaffey, KR (Apr 2, 2003). "Blood mercury levels in US children and women of childbearing age, 1999-2000". JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 289 (13): 1667–74. PMID 12672735.
4. • Medical Letter consultants (September 20, 2010). "Nonstandard uses of chelation therapy". The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics (1347): 75. PMID 20847718.
   • Kosnett, M J (2010). "Chelation for Heavy Metals (Arsenic, Lead, and Mercury): Protective or Perilous?". Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. 88 (3): 412–415. doi:10.1038/clpt.2010.132. ISSN 0009-9236.
   • Nissen, Steven E. (2013). "Concerns About Reliability in the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT)". JAMA. 309 (12): 1293. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.2778. ISSN 0098-7484.
   • Risher, JF; Amler, SN (Aug 2005). "Mercury exposure: evaluation and intervention the inappropriate use of chelating agents in the diagnosis and treatment of putative mercury poisoning". Neurotoxicology. 26 (4): 691–9. PMID 16009427.
   • Food and Drug Administration (14 October 2010). "Consumer Updates - FDA Warns Marketers of Unapproved 'Chelation' Drugs". fda.gov. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
5. • Bellinger, DC; Trachtenberg, F; Barregard, L; Tavares, M; Cernichiari, E; Daniel, D; McKinlay, S (Apr 19, 2006). "Neuropsychological and renal effects of dental amalgam in children: a randomized clinical trial". JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 295 (15): 1775–83. PMID 16622139.
   • Factor-Litvak, P; Hasselgren, G; Jacobs, D; Begg, M; Kline, J; Geier, J; Mervish, N; Schoenholtz, S; Graziano, J (May 2003). "Mercury derived from dental amalgams and neuropsychologic function". Environmental health perspectives. 111 (5): 719–23. PMC 1241481. PMID 12727600.

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