Diagnostic imaging studies performed in children over a nine-year period

Pediatrics

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Tompane, Trevor ^a   Bush, Ruth ^b   Dansky, Tanya ^b,c   Huang, Jeannie S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Children's Associated Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Radiation; Radiology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYMPTOM; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INSURANCE; IONIZING RADIATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 84872857981     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-1228     Document Type: Article

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