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Incidence of new expected and new unexpected predefined major abnormalities in 319 on-demand chest radiographs that were ordered as routine chest radiographs |
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| Abnormalities |
Expected abnormalitiesa |
Unexpected abnormalitiesa |
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| Abnormalities expected by the ICU physician |
Abnormalities found by the radiologist |
Unexpected abnormalities found by the radiologist |
Abnormalities resulting in a change in therapy |
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| Total number of abnormalities |
137 |
8 |
29 |
11 |
| Total number of chest radiographs with abnormalities |
124 (38.9%) |
8 (2.5%) |
28 (8.8%) |
11 (3.4%) |
| Total number of patients with chest radiographs with abnormalitiesb |
89 (11.8%) |
8 (1.1%) |
27 (3.6%) |
11 (1.5%) |
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Predefined major abnormalities are summarized in Table 1. aAbsolute number of chest radiographs (% of all daily routine chest radiographs). bAbsolute number of patients (% of all patients with daily routine chest radiographs). | ||||
Graat et al. Critical Care 2006 10:R11 doi:10.1186/cc3955 |
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