Use of AIM's Diagnostic Guidelines:
AIM's Clinical Practice Guidelines are designed to evaluate and direct the appropriate utilization of high technology diagnostic imaging services. In the process, multiple functions are accomplished:

• To promote the most efficient and cost-effective use of diagnostic imaging services
• To assist the practitioner as an education tool
• To encourage standardization of medical practice patterns and reduce variation in clinical evaluation
• To curtail the performance of inappropriate diagnostic imaging studies
• To advocate biosafety issues, including unnecessary radiation exposure (for CT and plain film radiography) and MRI safety concerns
• To enhance quality of healthcare for diagnostic imaging studies, using evidence-based medicine and outcomes research from numerous resources