CT Orders Flatten as Awareness of Radiation Risk Increases

Physicians’ awareness of the health risk to patients of radiation exposure from medical imaging may have influenced physicians’ utilization of CT scans, according to an American Medical News report.

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For example, a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association that assessed imaging use at six large HMOs found that while CT use grew by 10.2 percent annually from 1998 to 2005, the rate decreased to 4.2 percent from 2005 to 2008 and started to flatten out by 2007, according to the report.

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