Prior CT imaging history for patients who undergo whole-body CT for acute traumatic injury and are discharged home from the emergency department

BACKGROUND: Recurrent CT imaging is believed to significantly increase lifetime malignancy risk. We previously reported that high acuity, admitted trauma patients who received a whole-body CT in the emergency department (ED) had a history of prior CT imaging in 14% of cases. The primary objective of...

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Autores principales: Matthews, Mary, Richman, Peter, Krall, Scott, Leeson, Kimberly, Xu, K Tom, Gest, Albert L, Blow, Osbert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6192200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30326855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-018-0186-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6192200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30326855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-018-0186-1

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