Opinion: Physicians Should Discuss Necessity of Testing and Screening With Patients

For an opinion piece published in Annals of Internal Medicine, the authors reviewed medical literature and identified 37 common clinical situations relevant to internal medicine in which screening and diagnostic tests may provide little or no benefit to patients.

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Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital Review on medical necessity.

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