Erschienen in:
01.02.2016 | Editorial
Can Parsimonious Practice Please Patients and Practitioners? The Case of Spine Imaging
verfasst von:
Richard A. Deyo, MD, MPH
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2016
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Excerpt
There now seems to be broad agreement that lumbar spine imaging is an overused clinical procedure. Clinical guidelines recommend against routine lumbar spine imaging for patients with nonspecific low back pain,
1 and such imaging has become a high-priority target for the Choosing Wisely campaign. Nonetheless, spine imaging rates are generally higher than expected. Tan and colleagues now provide evidence that high use continues, and that there is wide variation among individual physicians in the use of imaging for older patients.
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