I read with interest Dr. Milne’s recent column on paying patients $100 not to get a CT…
During your busy shift, you get a call that a 27-year-old G3 P2 female who is 28…
The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit organization that evaluates health care technology, recently published a report of the…
You may have heard about the upcoming Medicare requirement to consult Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) through approved…
Exposure to diagnostic low-dose ionizing radiation and CT scans is associated with increased cancer incidence in children,…
The Case A 50-year-old male with no known past medical history is brought to the emergency department…
Written from the perspective of an emergency physician who also runs a weekly minor fracture clinic, this…
The Case A 38-year-old man presents to the emergency department with sudden onset of a severe frontal…
Emergency department (ED) computed tomography (CT) imaging rates for children with nontraumatic abdominal pain have changed little…