RE: Application of ACR appropriateness criteria in ER could save millions

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I guess those were the days before HMOs.



--- "Morris, William  GS  (RASO)"

<morriswj@RASO.NAVY.MIL> wrote:



> Maybe not, but it will reduce the cost of medical

> care and therefore

> insurance premiums, a subject in the recent

> presidential debates.  I presume

> a CT scan is not exactly cheap. 

> 

> Over 30 years ago, I sat at a local chapter dinner

> where a doctor from Johns

> Hopkins opined that he would always be giving an

> x-ray since the cost is so

> much cheaper than a lawsuit later.  KZ Morgan was

> the dinner speaker by the

> way.  

> 

> My opinions only.  

> William Morris

> CHP

> NAVSEADET RASO

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> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Danny K McClung

> [mailto:danny.mcclung@louisville.edu]

> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 10:34 AM

> To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu;

> crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM

> Subject: Re: Application of ACR appropriateness

> criteria in ER could

> save millions

> 

> 

> 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

> 

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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