Prevalence of negative CT scans in a level one trauma center - Hansen CK, Strayer RJ, Shy BD, Kessler S, Givre S, Shah KH.

PURPOSE: The rise of computed tomography (CT) use in trauma has become the subject of concern given the harms of CT including radiation, cost, over diagnosis and identification of incidental lesions. We developed a novel metric, the Negative CT Score, ( ∑...
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