Greater use of in-patient diagnostic imaging improves patient outcomes without significantly impacting costs

Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 04:28 in Health & Medicine

Hospitals that make greater use of inpatient diagnostic imaging exams achieve lower in-hospital mortality rates with little or no impact on costs, according to a peer-reviewed study of more than 1 million patient outcomes in more than 100 hospitals nationwide published in the November issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR)...

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