New clinical decision instruments can and should reduce radiation exposure

Emmanuel Lagarde

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001884

New clinical decision instruments can and should reduce radiation exposure

PLoS Med. 2015 Oct 6;12(10):e1001884. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001884. eCollection 2015 Oct.

Author

Emmanuel Lagarde¹

Affiliation

¹ Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U897, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

Abstract

In this Perspective linked to Rodriguez and colleagues, Emmanuel Lagarde discusses the importance of decision instruments that can help physicians avoid subjecting patients to radiation exposure from unnecessary CT scans.

MeSH terms

Decision Support Techniques*
Humans
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / prevention & control*
Radiation Exposure / prevention & control*
Radiation, Ionizing*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed*

Grants and funding

No funding was received for this work.