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A tertiary hospital audit of the use of medical imaging in the 24 h preceding death
Author(s) -
Liu D.,
Weil J.,
Boughey M.,
Sutherland T.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.12976
Subject(s) - medicine , retrospective cohort study , audit , emergency medicine , tertiary care , general surgery , pediatrics , surgery , management , economics
This study aims to investigate the number, modality and indication for imaging studies performed on acute hospital inpatients in the 24 h prior to death. Data were obtained from retrospective analysis of deceased patients from a university affiliated tertiary hospital over a 2‐year period and it was found that around one in five inpatients received medical imaging in the last 24 h of their life (364 of 1855, 19.6%).
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