Nine medical specialty boards are recommending that doctors perform fewer of the 45 most common tests and procedures as part of the Choosing Wisely campaign created by the ABIM Foundation. Procedures that should be cut back include CT scans for people who have only fainted, stress test imaging for people with no history of cardiac symptoms and antibiotics for sinusitis. This is helpful, but it doesn’t get to the core reason US health care is so expensive.
Doctor Groups Try To Discourage Unnecessary Tests |
| By: Jon Walker Wednesday April 4, 2012 8:15 am |


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