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Evaluating the Outcome of an Unnecessary Request for CT Scan in Be'sat Hospital of Hamadan. Radiol Res Pract 2023; 2023:3709015. [PMID: 36874208 PMCID: PMC9977522 DOI: 10.1155/2023/3709015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2022] [Revised: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 01/27/2023] [Indexed: 02/24/2023] Open
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Aim This study aimed to investigate the frequency of unnecessary tests requested in Be'sat Hospital in Hamadan. Materials and Methods This descriptive research was conducted in order to investigate the frequency of unnecessary requests for CT scan and radiography of patients referring to the imaging department of Be'sat Hospital in Hamadan in a 4- to 6-month period. Patient information, including gender, age, type of CT scan test, the reason for requesting the test, the expertise of the requesting physician, and the result of the radiologist's report on each test, was extracted and collected. Results A total of 1000 CT scans were evaluated. The mean age of these patients was about 36 years and most of them were men. The highest and lowest percentages of unnecessary cases were related to CT scans of the brain (42.3%) and facial bones (2.3%), respectively. The most and the least unnecessary CT scans based on the reason given for the request were related to multiple physical trauma (30.7%) and chronic kidney disease (1.5%), respectively. Conclusion In all tests, over 74% of the reports were unnecessary and less than 26% were necessary. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce unnecessary requests to reduce the radiation dose of patients. Also, the knowledge of doctors should be increased in the field of appropriate evaluation of CT scan tests based on clinical guidelines.
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Fite BZ, Hinostroza V, States L, Hicks-Nelson A, Baratto L, Kallianos K, Codari M, Yu B, Jha P, Shams M, Stoyanova T, Chapelin FF, Liu A, Rashidi A, Soto F, Quintana Y, Davidzon GA, Marycz K, Gibbs IC, Chonde DB, Patel CB, Daldrup-Link HE. Increasing Diversity in Radiology and Molecular Imaging: Current Challenges. Mol Imaging Biol 2021; 23:625-638. [PMID: 33903986 PMCID: PMC8074707 DOI: 10.1007/s11307-021-01610-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2020] [Revised: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 04/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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This paper summarizes the 2020 Diversity in Radiology and Molecular Imaging: What We Need to Know Conference, a three-day virtual conference held September 9-11, 2020. The World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS) and Stanford University jointly organized this event to provide a forum for WMIS members and affiliates worldwide to openly discuss issues pertaining to diversity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The participants discussed three main conference themes, "racial diversity in STEM," "women in STEM," and "global health," which were discussed through seven plenary lectures, twelve scientific presentations, and nine roundtable discussions, respectively. Breakout sessions were designed to flip the classroom and seek input from attendees on important topics such as increasing the representation of underrepresented minority (URM) members and women in STEM, generating pipeline programs in the fields of molecular imaging, supporting existing URM and women members in their career pursuits, developing mechanisms to effectively address microaggressions, providing leadership opportunities for URM and women STEM members, improving global health research, and developing strategies to advance culturally competent healthcare.
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- Brett Z Fite
- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Molecular Imaging, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Biophysics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, 02215, USA
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- Department of Experimental Biology, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA
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- Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA, 02129, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA
- Department of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA.
- Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 94305, USA.
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Kwan JM, Henry ML, Christophers B, Tamirisa K, Thamman R, Sadler D, Aggarwal NR, Cheng R, Parwani P, Dent S, Ismail-Khan R, Fradley MG, Brown SA. The Role and Impact of Social Media in Cardio-oncology During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Curr Oncol Rep 2021; 23:99. [PMID: 34259950 PMCID: PMC8278372 DOI: 10.1007/s11912-021-01081-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/30/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW To give an overview of the role of social media (SoMe) in cardio-oncology during the COVID-19 pandemic. RECENT FINDINGS SoMe has been critical in fostering education, outreach, awareness, collaboration, dissemination of information, and advocacy in cardio-oncology. This has become increasingly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic, during which SoMe has helped share best practices, community, and research focused on the impact of COVID-19 in cardiology and hematology/oncology, with cardio-oncology at the interface of these two subspecialty fields. A strength of SoMe is the ability to amplify a message in real-time, globally, with minimal investment of resources. This has been particularly beneficial for the emerging field of cardio-hematology/cardio-oncology, a field focused on the interplay of cancer and cardiovascular disease. SoMe field especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. We illustrate how social media has supported innovation (including telemedicine), amplification of healthcare workers' voice, and illumination of pre-existing and continued health disparities within the field of cardio-oncology during the pandemic.
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- Jennifer M Kwan
- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD program, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Medical Oncology, Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Cardio-Oncology Program, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Cardio-Oncology Center of Excellence, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Cardio-Oncology Program, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA.
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