Instead, he has looked for tools and techniques that spare resources and improve outcomes.Shivinder Singh, head of Fortis, a rival hospital chain based in New Delhi, says that most of the new, expensive imaging machines are only a little better than older models.
US hardware is more easily available than that for CT and MRI, and therefore US is considered the most feasible, nonradiating, and least expensive imaging technique.
Imaging studies were shown in some other studies to be the most common test ordered defensively and in some specialties like orthopedic surgery expensive imaging modalities such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) represented 48.7% of the tests ordered defensively [ 19].
Conventional radiography is the simplest and least expensive imaging method for assessing KOA, and the K/L score remains the most widely applied system when diagnosing KOA [ 11, 12] in clinical trials.
Given the high costs of imaging, diagnostic algorithms in the future most likely will combine relatively cheap serum biomarkers that indicate plaque instability with the subsequent use of expensive imaging technology in selected cases.
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Absent expensive imaging equipment, doctors keep up their diagnostic instincts.
