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ACR responds to a study appearing in Aug. 27 New England Journal of Medicine

Medical imaging exams and image guided procedures are increasingly replacing more invasive and often more costly techniques while saving and extending lives everyday. The ACR, in conjunction with other imaging stakeholders, has long been effectively addressing issues regarding radiation dose from medical imaging exams and inappropriate utilization of these scans.

Patients are urged not to delay or avoid seeking needed imaging care because of radiation concerns raised in a study and an ill-advised and misinformed perspective published in the August 27 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

Please read the full ACR response to this study here: http://bit.ly/NEJM-ACR

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Permalink Reply by saeed rad on August 28, 2009 at 2:45am

The article was very interesting, but to manage all these restrictions and control of public radiation dose i think there should be a governmental association in some countries of third world to inform people about medical indications and prevent the exaggerations due to the modernized technics.
Requirements asked from the referral physician, such as informed at the end of the article, should be regarded as a global regulation.
Thank you for making the article accessible in radRounds.

ACR responds to a study appearing in Aug. 27 New England Journal of Medicine

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