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Author(s) -
Boehnert Markus U.,
Zimmermann Heinz,
Exadaktylos Aristomenis K.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2009.01348.x
Subject(s) - medicine , appendicitis , audit , emergency department , knowledge translation , radiology , acute appendicitis , medical record , computed tomography , general surgery , medical physics , medical emergency , nursing , management , horticulture , economics , biology
Much effort goes into developing and publishing guidelines which physicians fail to implement. We feel that major discrepancies still exist between theory and reality and that the translational approach to this aspect of medical care has not yet established itself. We therefore decided to investigate in an exemplary audit how liberally inappropriate imaging is used in our emergency department (ED) to rule out acute appendicitis.