Use Of Medical Scans In Patients Who Experience Pain Might Prompt Unnecessary Increase In Health Care Costs
The New York Times on Tuesday, as part of an occasional series titled “The Evidence Gap,” examined how medical scans, which have become “more sensitive and easily available than ever,” are “increasingly finding abnormalities that may not be the cause of the problem for which they are blamed.
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Filed under: MRI / PET / Ultrasound on December 11th, 2008