MedPage Today September 8, 2019
-Study raises questions about ‘Choosing Wisely’ and financial incentives
Despite efforts among physician groups to reduce the overuse of medical imaging, the rates of CT, MRI, and other scans continue to rise, new research shows.
The study, published this week in JAMA, examined the use of more than 135 million imaging exams and found that the growth in imaging slowed in the early 2000s.
However, that trend has reversed in recent years for computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging across most patient age groups, with the exception of children, according to researchers at UC Davis, UC San Francisco, and Kaiser Permanente.
The researchers looked at patterns of medical imaging from 2000 to 2016 among 16-21 million adult and...
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