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September 10, 2025Emergency Care and MedicineOpen Access

Brain Computed Tomography Overutilization in an Emergency Department Setting

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ALAdam LundJLJesper Juul LarsenTSTorrey Schmidt

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Overview

Retrospective review of CT requests shows low diagnostic yield in patients, suggesting overutilization impacts healthcare costs.

Key Points

  • 91.1% of brain CT scans requested in the emergency department were normal, leading to limited interventions.
  • Retrospective study reviewed 584 brain CT requests; common indications included head trauma (45.4%) and ischemic stroke (22.3%).
  • Careful clinical evaluations are necessary to optimize imaging decisions, potentially reducing unnecessary scans.
  • Reducing brain CT scans could decrease healthcare costs and minimize radiation exposure, but may risk missing diagnoses.

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Lund et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23d3ab210217d6478c44ehttps://doi.org/10.3390/ecm2030044
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