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The impact of routine admission abdominal sonography on patient care
Author(s) -
Verbanck Johan J,
van Aelst Filip,
Rutgeerts Louis,
Demuynck Hilde,
Ghillebert Gilbert,
Vergauwe Philippe,
Tytgat Hendrik,
Segaert Marc
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of clinical ultrasound
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.272
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1097-0096
pISSN - 0091-2751
DOI - 10.1002/jcu.1870160906
Subject(s) - medicine , prospective cohort study , medical diagnosis , radiology , abdominal ultrasound , physical examination , ultrasound , biopsy , abdomen , surgery
In a prospective study of 1000 consecutive patients, abdominal sonography added diagnostic information to that available by history and physical examination in 8.9%. The yield ranged from a high of 27.4% in patients with acute abdominal symptoms to a low of 2.7% in screening sonograms of patients without abdominal symptoms. Sonographically guided biopsy‐proven diagnoses were obtained in 6.6% of the patients and were clinically not suspected in 4.4%. The percentage of false‐positive and false‐negative sonographic studies was 0.5% and 1.1%, respectively. Sonography shortened the duration of hospitalization in 15.3%.