Acute pancreatitis: Imaging utilization practices in an urban teaching hospital-analysis of trends with assessment of independent predictors in correlation with patient outcomes

Radiology

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 174-181

  Mortele, Koenraad J ^a   Ip, Ivan K ^a   Wu, Bechien U ^a   Conwell, Darwin L ^a   Banks, Peter A ^a   Khorasani, Ramin ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; URBAN AREA;

ACUTE DISEASE; APACHE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650603011     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10100320     Document Type: Article

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