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Watchful Waiting as a Strategy to Reduce Low-Value Spinal Imaging: Study Protocol for a Randomized Trial

2021-02-10

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>: Patients with acute low back pain frequently request diagnostic imaging, and clinicians feel pressure to acquiesce to such requests to sustain patient trust and satisfaction. Spinal imaging in patients with acute low back pain poses risks from diagnostic evaluation of false-positive findings, patient labeling and anxiety, and unnecessary treatment (including spi...

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Literature Corpus work: 4e4b793d-2176-5f6f-97be-3a5974bb5fb6
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-142884/v2

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