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Why Doctors Order Too Many Tests (It's Not Just to Avoid Lawsuits)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Pines, Jesse M. Meisel, Zachary F. |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | CTs and MRIs routinely change the course of medical care, often for the better. But their use has become so routine that their lifesaving benefits are being increasingly overshadowed by the risks of overuse. Medical imagin is the fastest-growing source of cost inflation (see PDF) in the Medicare program. Meanwhile, the real value of so much testing has been widely questioned in scientific literature: imaging rates are going up, but doctors are not diagnosing (or necessarily misdiagnosing) more diseases. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs of 2010.) |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=sphhs_policy_informal |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/healthpolicy/DHP_Publications/pub_uploads/dhpPublication_97787C88-5056-9D20-3D9C4881AA3979E6.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
