Transporting CD-ROMs with diagnostic images to patients switched between hospital EDs could eliminate half a million unnecessary CT procedures every year, according to a study in Radiology.
A study found that patients transferred between EDs whose images were imported into a picture archiving and communication system by the receiving hospital had a 17 percent decrease in imaging over the next day.
If the method were applied to all 2.2 million patients transferred between EDs each year, it could reduce CT use by 484,000 scans annually.
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