Survey of Physicians Rates Imaging #1
Which medical innovations do physicians think are most important? The answer obviously varies by individual, but in a 2001 survey that asked 225 leading US physicians to rank the relative importance of 30 medical innovations, two imaging technologies – CT and MRI – were chosen as number one.1 Click here to view the study
- In fact, 76 percent of physicians picked MRI and CT – well ahead of the runner-up – ace inhibitors – at 54 percent.
- Among the top five innovations chosen by physicians, image-guided balloon angioplasty was ranked as number three; mammography was selected as number five.
Physician Rating of Innovations
Medical Imaging in top 5 physician picks |
| INNOVATION |
RANK |
PERCENT THAT SAID "MOST IMPORTANT" |
| MRI and CT |
1 |
75.6 |
| Ace Inhibitors |
2 |
54.2 |
| Balloon angioplasty |
3 |
53.8 |
| Statins |
4 |
48.0 |
| Mammography |
5 |
47.6 |
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"Physicians' View of the Relative Importance of Thirty Medical Innovations," Victor Fuchs and Harold Sox, Jr., Health Affairs, September/October 2001. |
1 "Physicians' Views of the Relative Importance of Thirty Medical Innovations," Victor R. Fuchs and Harold C. Sox, Jr., Health Affairs, Volume 20, Number 5, September/October, 2001.
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