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Stemming the tide of overtreatment in U.S. healthcare | Reuters
via reuters.com "Excessive testing costs $200 billion to $250 billion (per year)," Dr. Steven Weinberger, CEO of ACP said in an interview from his office in Philadelphia. "There's an overuse of imaging studies, CT scans for lung disease, overuse of routine electrocardiograms and other cardiac tests such as stress testing." In an article published last month in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the ACP cited 37 clinical situations where screening did not promote health and might actually hurt patients. They included performing coronary angiography - a procedure that uses a...
Published By: MedWorm/Stress - Wednesday, 22 February
