Physicians at a hospital in Quebec hope to rectify the overuse of MRI for low back pain (LBP) by following in the footsteps of other parts of Canada and the United States.
Members of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (CHUS) presented data at the American College of Rheumatology’s 2015 annual meeting showing that a little over half of patients with LBP with neurologic symptoms had abnormal MRI scans (abstract 2119). The new American Board of Internal Medicine’s