CLINICIANS REASONS FOR OVERUSE OF SKULL RADIOGRAPHS
CLINICIANS REASONS FOR OVERUSE OF SKULL RADIOGRAPHS
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DOI:
10.2214/ajr.135.3.549
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
CUMMINS, RO
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作者:
CUMMINS, RO
Observations based on a high yield indication list (HYL) revealed that 80% of posttraumatic skull radiographs requested by physicians were not indicated. To investigate this possible overuse of radiography, 15 resident physicians who used the HYL in a university emergency room were interviewed. The interviews included a questionnaire, case simulations and discussion of actual head trauma patients. Several general reasons for the overuse were detected as follows: overriding indications to the HYL; basic problem-solving strategies of the physicians (pattern recognition, method of exhaustion, and hypothesis generation and evaluation); context of the decision-making (patient and family expectations, mentor and peer pressure, malpractice threat, time management concerns); fear of uncertainty; routines. Overuse of diagnostic radiography was not perverse or irrational, but was produced by a complex mixture of actual expectation of yield from the procedure, personal approaches of the individual physicians and pressures in the decision-making environment.