|Articles|October 29, 2012

Doctors should be assessed on overuse of low-value procedures, study says

Doctors should be graded on their overuse of low-value procedures, such as imaging tests for patients with uncomplicated lower back pain, advocates a new paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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