Flip side of innovation: What causes doctors to scale back on the use of medical practices

(The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy& Clinical Practice) To better understand the process of 'exnovation,' or the scaling-back of expensive medical treatments for certain medical practices, researchers at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice studied nearly 10,000 physicians who performed carotid revascularization -- a surgical procedure used to reduce the risk of stroke by correcting narrowing in the carotid artery -- on elderly Medicare patients between 2006-2013.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news