Managed Healthcare Executive September 23, 2019
The growth rate of medical imaging slowed in the early 2000s, but it ticked back up in recent years for computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in most patient age groups in the U.S. and Ontario, Canada. A notable exception was a decline in CT use in children in recent years.
These are the findings of a study of more than 135 million imaging exams conducted by researchers at UC Davis, UC San Francisco, and Kaiser Permanente. Results were published September 3 in the Journal of the American Medical Association and are cause for concern for researchers because medical imaging is believed to be overused.
CT scans use ionizing radiation to create images of the...
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