Value of routine chest radiography of psychiatric patients.

No Value for Routine Chest Radiography in the Work-Up of Early Stage Cervical Cancer Patients

AIM Evidence supporting the recommendation to include chest radiography in the work-up of all cervical cancer patients is limited. We investigated the diagnostic value of routine chest radiography in cervical cancer staging. METHODS All consecutive cervical cancer patients who presented at our tertiary referral center in the Netherlands (January 2006 - September 2013), and for whom ≥6 months ...

Routine daily chest radiography in patients with pulmonary artery catheters.

BACKGROUND Pulmonary artery catheters are widely used invasive monitoring devices in critically ill patients. Clinicians disagree about whether daily chest radiographs are needed or clinical parameters alone are sufficient to verify catheter placement. OBJECTIVES To determine whether daily chest radiographs are needed to assess migration of pulmonary artery catheters. METHODS One hundred co...

Routine Admission and Preoperative Chest Radiography

Value of routine chest radiography in the diagnostic work-up of ill returned travelers

BACKGROUND Respiratory tract infections frequently occur in ill returned travelers, a minority of whom present with pneumonia. The most accurate and cost-effective diagnostic work-up remains an area of uncertainty. In this retrospective cohort study, the utility of routine chest radiography was evaluated. METHODS This study was performed at the Institute for Tropical Diseases in Rotterdam and...

Appropriateness of routine postoperative chest radiography after tracheotomy.

OBJECTIVE To determine the appropriateness of postoperative chest radiography after adult tracheotomy. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING Tertiary care academic medical center. PATIENTS The records of 379 consecutive adult patients who underwent tracheotomy by the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Service from January 1992 to December 1996 were available for review and met inclu...