From Futurity:
“We found that although the use of CT scans was appropriate across all racial groups for those children at higher risk of a brain injury following apparently minor head trauma, for children with only minimal risk, CT was overused in white children,” says JoAnne E. Natale, associate professor of pediatric critical care medicine at University of California, Davis School of Medicine and the study’s lead author, who presented her preliminary findings at the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly last October.
“In many instances, doctors appear to be responding to parental anxiety rather than medical evidence,” Natale says.
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