Computerised Tomography Scans of the Head in a District General Hospital

We report the results of a retrospective study of all computerised tomography (CT) brain scans of adult patients carried out over a 10-week period, based on radiological and clinical records. The commonest scan results were normal (51%) and stroke (26%), with an overall diagnostic accuracy of 43/80...

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Autores principales: Nixon, John, Bateman, David E, Malthouse, Simon R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Physicians of London 1996
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Medical Audit
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5401480/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8961210
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description We report the results of a retrospective study of all computerised tomography (CT) brain scans of adult patients carried out over a 10-week period, based on radiological and clinical records. The commonest scan results were normal (51%) and stroke (26%), with an overall diagnostic accuracy of 43/80 (54%). On the basis of a retrospective blind survey by a neurologist, 42% of scans were thought not to be indicated. The results indicate the need for: • guidelines on the use of CT scanning in stroke • emphasis of current guidelines on the use of CT scanning in head injury • neurological assessment of some suspected diagnoses before scanning.
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spelling pubmed-54014802019-01-22 Computerised Tomography Scans of the Head in a District General Hospital Nixon, John Bateman, David E Malthouse, Simon R J R Coll Physicians Lond Medical Audit We report the results of a retrospective study of all computerised tomography (CT) brain scans of adult patients carried out over a 10-week period, based on radiological and clinical records. The commonest scan results were normal (51%) and stroke (26%), with an overall diagnostic accuracy of 43/80 (54%). On the basis of a retrospective blind survey by a neurologist, 42% of scans were thought not to be indicated. The results indicate the need for: • guidelines on the use of CT scanning in stroke • emphasis of current guidelines on the use of CT scanning in head injury • neurological assessment of some suspected diagnoses before scanning. Royal College of Physicians of London 1996 /pmc/articles/PMC5401480/ /pubmed/8961210 Text en © Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1996 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits non-commercial use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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