A substantial percentage of patients who receive radiologist recommendations for chest CT to evaluate abnormal findings on outpatient chest X-rays have clinically relevant findings, including cancer, ...

Low-dose radiation to cardiac substructures and late-onset cardiac disease: A report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS).

Pneumonia, chest x-ray The CHEST Expert Cough Panel agreed on cough, dyspnea, pleural pain, sweating, shivers, aches, temperature of ≥38°C, tachypnea, and new and localizing chest examination signs as ...

For the 7-item history questions, responses to the questions related to cough, shortness of breath and wheezing were classified as positive if the respondent answered ‘almost every day’ or ‘several ...

Background The inclusion of clinical information may have unrecognized influence in the interpretation of diagnostic testing. Objective The objective of the study was to determine the impact of ...

Findings show that radiologist RAIs after chest X-rays represent valuable contributions to patient care A new study published online in the journal Radiology, reveals that considerable percentage of ...

Six board-certified radiologists at 2 academic children's hospitals (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia [n = 3] and Boston Children's Hospital [n = 3]) interpreted the same 110 chest radiographs (100 ...