Top down approach helps academic medical centre reduce unnecessary emergency department X-rays
Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 04:21
in Health & Medicine
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 centre to significantly reduce the number of unnecessary cervical spine radiographs (X-rays) in the emergency department, according to a study published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (www.jacr.org)...