ACR Appropriateness Criteria on low back pain.

Advancing the screening of fibromyalgia in late-life depression: practical implications for psychiatric settings.

BACKGROUND Fibromyalgia (FM) is common in older adults suffering from mood disorders. However, clinical diagnosis of FM is challenging, particularly in psychiatric settings. We examined the prevalence of FM and the sensitivity of three simple screeners for FM. METHODS Using cross-sectional data, we evaluated three tests against the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1990 Criteria for the ...

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Chronic Back Pain Suspected Sacroiliitis-Spondyloarthropathy.

Inflammatory sacroiliitis or the seronegative axial spondyloarthropathies often presents as back pain or sacroiliac joint pain of more than 3-month duration with inflammatory symptoms and typically in patients younger than 45 years of age. Imaging plays an important role in diagnosis and disease monitoring. This article addresses the appropriate sequence of initial imaging for evaluation of a s...

American College of Radiology

ACR Appropriateness Criteria 1 Acute Onset Flank Pain — Suspicion of Stone Disease American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria Clinical Condition: Acute Onset Flank Pain — Suspicion of Stone Disease Variant 1: Suspicion of stone disease. Radiologic Procedure Rating Comments RRL* CT abdomen and pelvis without contrast 8 Reduced-dose techniques preferred. ☢☢☢☢ US kidneys and bladde...

Patient-Friendly Summary of the ACR Appropriateness Criteria Acute Onset Flank Pain-Suspicion of Stone Disease (Urolithiasis).

بررسی بهره برداری مناسب از سی تی اسکن در بخش های تریاژ

Background: Regarding to the importance of controlling health care expenditure, necessity for proper distribution of health care resources and appropriate utilization of hospital resources through inappropriate services reduction for patients, this study aimed to assess suitability of brain CT scans, based on American College of Radiologists (ACR) appropriateness criteria in Shahid Beheshti Hos...