Ferial Farahmand

Department of Community Medicine, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran.

[ 1 ] - Appropriateness of physicians’ lumbosacral MRI requests in private and public centers in Tehran, Iran

Background: Back pain is a common patients’ complaint, and its etiology is important because of different potential treatment approaches (based on causes). For a better diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is widely used in clinical settings that may result in inappropriate requests. This study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of the lumbosacral MRI requests in patients with ba...