MRI and CT are the most important medical innovations in the last 25 years, according to a survey of 225 general internists around the U.S. The research was published in the September/October issue of the journal Health Affairs.
In the survey, the authors asked the internists to review a list of 30 innovations and select five to seven that would have the most adverse effect on their patients if these technologies did not exist, as well as the five to seven that would have the least adverse effect. MRI and CT were ranked first, with ACE inhibitors, balloon angioplasty, statins, and mammography filling out the top five.
Ultrasound and echocardiography pulled in the number 11 spot. The study was co-authored by Dr. Victor Fuchs at Stanford University and Dr. Harold Sox Jr., current editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
October 11, 2001
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