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DecisionHealth stock imageYou've heard it before -- you can improve your patients' health outcomes and waste fewer Medicare dollars by avoiding useless procedures and tests. Now a physician group has published a top-five list of don'ts for primary care doctors to avoid. Highlights include cautions against imaging scans for back pain within the first six weeks unless "red flags" are present and support for prescribing generic statins for lipid-lowering drug therapy. These are two of the five items listed by the non-profit National Physicians Alliance (NPA), which actually released three separate "top five" lists for internists, family practitioners and pediatricians.

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