Factors Influencing Primary Care Providers’ Unneeded Lumbar Spine MRI Orders for Acute, Uncomplicated Low-Back Pain: a Qualitative Study

BACKGROUND: Clinical practice guidelines suggest that magnetic resonance imaging of the lumbar spine (LS-MRI) is unneeded during the first 6 weeks of acute, uncomplicated low-back pain. Unneeded LS-MRIs do not improve patient outcomes, lead to unnecessary surgeries and procedures, and cost the US he...

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Autores principales: Nevedal, Andrea L., Lewis, Eleanor T., Wu, Justina, Jacobs, Josephine, Jarvik, Jeffrey G., Chou, Roger, Barnett, Paul G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7174262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31832927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05410-y

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