Top down approach helps academic medical center reduce unnecessary emergency department X-rays
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 23:14
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 center 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.