The model is designed to determine whether or not Crohn’s disease patients require a CT scan in the ER. The model only had a 0.8 percent miss rate. The model’s investigators estimate that this tool could save more than $80 million per decade simply by determining which patients have serious GI complications as opposed to simple intestinal inflammation, according to the report.
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