A top-five list of emergency medicine procedures that are of low value and could help control costs if providers do not order them was developed as part of a study by Jeremiah D. Schuur, M.D., M.H.S., of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, and colleagues. The cost of medical care in the United States is growing at an unsustainable rate and the tests, treatments and hospitalizations that come from emergency department care are expensive, according to the study background.
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