Groups Release Guidelines For Determining Unnecessary Medical Tests

The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine and the American Board of Internal Medicine partnered to develop new practices doctors can use to determine whether medical tests and procedures may be unnecessary or even cause harm. The groups released a list of five practices or tests that are common in the post-acute/long-term care setting, but which they say lack scientific evidence to support their use. The groups' advice to doctors: Don’t place an indwelling urinary catheter to manage...