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NewsJoint Commission proposal against overtesting, excessive procedures
With a brighter spotlight on overtesting and excessive procedures, The Joint Commission this week proposed a national patient safety goal (NPSG) for hospitals and critical access hospitals, Read more...
Imaging scans still overused despite costs, risks
Imaging testing is often considered a driving force of escalating healthcare costs, as the tests are often expensive and overused. Yet newly released Medicare data find that hospitals used double Read more...
Hospitals are overusing double CT scans, risking patient harm, CMS finds
As imaging testing ranks as one of the fastest growing procedures, hundreds of hospitals may be needlessly irradiating patients by overusing double CT scans, according early data released from the Read more...
Children undergo unnecessary CT scans, risk overexposure to radiation
Despite rising concerns about the unseen risks of cumulative doses of radiation, some hospitals and freestanding imaging centers still administer adult-size doses of radiation to children. The Read more...
Video-game processors could help lower radiation exposure from CT scans
When the FDA called for excessive radiation doses to be scaled back this past February, regulators probably weren't thinking of video game processors as part of the equation. However, a new way of Read more...
Hospital cuts unwarranted X-rays by 83 percent
Getting your medical director involved in imaging decisions can apparently help control imaging costs. The University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, N.Y., cut the number of unnecessary Read more...
Doctors and manufacturers aim to decrease CT radiation exposure, especially for kids
The high-powered imaging technology of CT scans allows doctors to see into crevices of the body that cannot be viewed as well by other methods. But the radiation exposure from the CT scans also can Read more...
Patients upset by long imaging test waits
Waiting for the results of tests upsets many a patient, and the information they get usually isn't satisfactory, according to a new U.S. study. The study, which looked at MRI, CT, ultrasound, Read more...
FDA: Patients overexposed to radiation during perfusion CT imaging
The FDA has issued a warning suggesting that patients receiving perfusion CT imaging to help diagnose and treat stroke are getting far too big a dose of radiation. In fact, the agency found that over Read more...
Study: Not all head-injured kids need imaging scans
Yesterday, we told you about an effort by Brigham and Women's Hospital to notify doctors of how much radiation patients had been exposed to through imaging scans. The effort sprung from concerns that Read more...
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