Re: Application of ACR appropriateness criteria in ER couldsave millions

["Danny K McClung" <danny.mcclung@louisville.edu>]

Compliance with the ACR appropriateness criteria in the ER would be

great, but will it really "ultimately reduce the number of deaths

associated with radiation-induced cancer by at least 2500 annually?" Is

16 mSv per radiographed patient enough dose to generate that many cancer

deaths in a 9 million patient per year population?  -Dan







Danny K. McClung, RRPT

Health Physicist/Asst. RSO

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