Even a small number of early terminations can be costly, in addition to creating negative experiences for patients, experts wrote in the European Journal of Radiology.
When it comes to assessing patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, contrast-enhanced CT pulmonary angiography has no diagnostic edge over a certain free-breathing, unenhanced MRI perfusion protocol.
Coronal fluid-sensitive T2 DIXON (water-only) sequence of the lumbar spine at 1.5T (a) and STIR sequence at 0.55T. Modic type 1 changes at the L4, L5 and S1 endplates are clearly visible at both field strengths. Image and caption courtesy of Academic Radiology.
Experts recently compared the use of a 0.55T low-field MRI system to a 1.5T system to determine whether the results rendered were within an acceptable diagnostic range.
Some physicians believe recent guidance from the federal government will make the mechanism for settling payment disputes with insurers “economically infeasible."
Monthly marijuana use, meanwhile, was not associated with a greater CAD risk. The full study is scheduled to be presented at ACC.23/WCC in New Orleans.