Top down approach helps academic medical center reduce unnecessary emergency department X-rays

Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 08:07 in Mathematics & Economics

An imaging algorithm produced by a radiology department and distributed through the medical director's office, in a top-down fashion, enabled a large, academic medical center to significantly reduce the number of unnecessary cervical spine radiographs (X-rays) in the emergency department, according to a study.

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