Cardiac CT offers a better, cost-effective approach to diagnose low-risk chest pain patients
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
Using cardiac CT to diagnose low risk patients with chest pain is significantly cheaper - 44% less than the standard of care - and can decrease the length of hospital stay up to 20 hours, according to a study performed at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA...