Use of advanced radiology for injury-related emergency department visits increases significantly
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
From 1998 to 2007, the use of CT or MRI scans in emergency departments for injury-related conditions increased about 3-fold without a similar increase in the prevalence of the diagnosis of certain life-threatening trauma-related conditions, according to a study in the October 6 issue of JAMA.