Opinion: Stopping doctors from ordering unnecessary diagnostic tests requires a structural fix

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American medicine runs more than 14 billion tests a year. While some tests can be lifesaving, many are used at the wrong time or on the wrong patient and are useless or even harmful. The medical industry has spent enormous effort making more advanced tests but expended little effort learning how to use tests correctly. There is a science for how to better use tests, diagnostic stewardship, but most doctors have never heard of it. Read the rest…