Rising Use Of Diagnostic Medical Imaging In A Large Integrated Health System
- 1 November 2008
- journal article
- Published by Health Affairs (Project Hope) in Health Affairs
- Vol. 27 (6), 1491-1502
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.27.6.1491
Abstract
Little has been published characterizing specific patterns of the dramatic rise in diagnostic imaging during the past decade. In a large health plan, 377,048 patients underwent 4.9 million diagnost...Keywords
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