Researchers find CT use not the cause of a rise in costs of hospital stay

December 4, 2008 DiagnosticImaging.com. Researchers find CT use not the cause of a rise in costs of hospital stay By Rebekah Moan Increased use of CT to image pneumonia is unlikely to be the sole cause of increased hospital costs for pneumonia patients at Brigham and Women's Hospital, according to a study presented Dec. 5 at the RSNA meeting. Michael Lu, Ph.D., a research fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues retrospectively examined 1064 patients with a primary diagnosis of pneumonia from 1999 to 2006. The researchers retrieved information from hospital accounting and administration data.

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