Reducing Unnecessary ‘Admission’ Chest X-rays: An Initiative to Minimize Low-Value Care

Introduction Internal medicine admission services often request a baseline admission chest X-ray (CXR) for patients already admitted to the emergency department (ED) and who are waiting for inpatient beds, despite rarely providing clinical value. Adverse consequences of such CXRs include unnecessary...

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Autores principales: Iyeke, Lisa, Moss, Rachel, Hall, Rochelle, Wang, Jeffrey, Sandhu, Laiba, Appold, Brendan, Kalontar, Enessa, Menoudakos, Demetra, Ramnarine, Mityanand, LaVine, Sean P, Ahn, Seungjun, Richman, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9627105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36337809
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29817

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