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Awareness of relative CT utilization among peers is not associated with changes in imaging requests among emergency department providers in a large county hospital.

Kevin KadakiaCory M PfeiferJoseph CaoEllen J O'ConnellJeannie KwonTravis Browning
Published in: Emergency radiology (2019)
Providing scorecards to make emergency department providers aware of their relative utilization does not significantly alter ordering behavior. Incentive-based systems may be required in order to lessen overutilization of these 3 commonly ordered radiology procedures in the emergency department.
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