Quality improvement efforts have sought to address such low-value diagnostic testing in the ED, with little attention paid to ambulatory settings, experts wrote in JAMA. 

ACR and others have submitted a formal national coverage determination request, asking the agency to address payment gaps for virtual colonoscopies. 

In a new study published in the AJR, pre-scan same day eGFR testing revealed that out of 10,256 patients who had these labs, only 1.4% displayed levels below the recommended cutoff.

Sant’Andrea University Hospital in Rome saw overall imaging volumes plummet 21.5% but improved numbers among vulnerable populations using real-time data, experts wrote in European Radiology. 

Experts suggest that their findings indicate dose reference levels could be shirt size specific in the not so distant future, according to a study published in the European Journal of Radiology. 

The authors hope their findings could lead to earlier diagnoses and improvements in patient care. 

Only 10% of such scans reveal positive findings for TBI, raising concerns about overuse and radiation exposure among children, experts wrote in JACR. 

A deep convolutional neural network was able to predict hospital stay, ICU admission and intubation when scoring chest CT images of hospitalized COVID patients.