Association of Lower Diagnostic Yield With High Users of CT Pulmonary Angiogram

JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Mar 1;178(3):412-413. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.7552.

Authors

Jaron Chong¹, Todd C Lee², Armen Attarian¹, Lojan Sivakumaran¹, Jean-Marc Troquet³, Emily G McDonald², Benoît Gallix¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
² Clinical Practice Assessment Unit, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Abstract

This study examines interphysician variability of diagnostic yield in computed tomographic pulmonary angiogram for pulmonary emboli.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Angiography / statistics & numerical data*
Attitude of Health Personnel
Emergency Service, Hospital
False Negative Reactions
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data*
Pulmonary Artery / diagnostic imaging*
Pulmonary Embolism / diagnostic imaging*
Quebec
Retrospective Studies
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / statistics & numerical data*