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A tertiary hospital audit of the use of medical imaging in the 24 h preceding death.
Intern Med J. 2016 Feb;46(2):220-2
Authors: Liu D, Weil J, Boughey M, Sutherland T
Abstract
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%).
PMID: 26899888 [PubMed - in process]