Monday, June 19, 2006

Evidence based imaging

Check out this fantastic CME on medscape on the appropriateness of imaging modalities at http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/4462?src=sr

Also see this great CME on Imaging Screening and Wellness: What to Tell Patients and Referring Clinicians by Bruce J. Hillman, MD . The article talks about various screening strategies for patients in times of wellness and finds most of them to be cost-ineffective except for Calcium scoring for coronary artery disease, CT virtual colonoscopy for colon cancer and CT Chest for Lung Ca. Whole body CT screening is an absolute no-no. Read more about this on http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/5499_pnt

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