Fact Based List:
10 overused tests waste healthcare dollars
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/14/2014 - 15:29
- Nuclear stress tests, and other imaging tests, after heart procedures
- Yearly electrocardiogram or exercise stress test
- PSA to screen for prostate cancer
- PET scan to diagnose Alzheimer's disease
- X-ray, CT scan or MRI for lower back pain
- Yearly Pap tests
- Bone density scan for women before age 65 and men before age 70
- Follow-up ultrasounds for small ovarian cysts
- Colonoscopy after age 75
- Yearly physical
Source: AARP
Source URL: http://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2014/c...
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