Effectiveness of a worksheet for diagnosing postmortem computed tomography in emergency departments.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a worksheet for diagnosing postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) in emergency departments (EDs).Materials and Methods: A total of 49 cases of clinically diagnosed nontraumatic deaths in the ED who underwent total body PMCT were enro...
| Publicado en: | Japanese Journal of Radiology Vol. 29; no. 10; pp. 701 - 707 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
Dec2011
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=104590578&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 104590578 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 18671071 AUCM jtl: Japanese Journal of Radiology issn: 18671071 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2011 vid: 29 iid: 10 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 104590578 66678181 NLM22009421 2011328221 10.1007/s11604-011-0618-2 NLM22009421 104590578 ppf: 701 ppct: 6 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Effectiveness of a worksheet for diagnosing postmortem computed tomography in emergency departments. aug: au: Takahashi N Higuchi T Shiotani M Satou S Hirose Y Takahashi, Naoya Higuchi, Takeshi Shiotani, Motoi Satou, Suguru Hirose, Yasuo affil: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Niigata City General Hospital, 463-7 Shumoku, Chuo-ku, Niigata 950-1197, Japan sug: subj: Autopsy Methods Checklists Methods Checklists Standards Emergency Service Postmortem Changes Tomography, X-Ray Computed Methods Adolescence Adult Aged Aged, 80 and Over Resuscitation, Cardiopulmonary Female Human Image Interpretation, Computer Assisted Methods Male Middle Age Observer Bias Prospective Studies Diagnostic Imaging Methods Young Adult Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over Middle Aged: 45-64 years Female Male ab: Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a worksheet for diagnosing postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) in emergency departments (EDs).Materials and Methods: A total of 49 cases of clinically diagnosed nontraumatic deaths in the ED who underwent total body PMCT were enrolled. PMCT images were prospectively evaluated by four radiologists: two radiologists with 1.5 and 3.5 years of residency and two board-certified radiologists with >20 years of experience. Readers were independently instructed to detect and interpret findings with reference to fatal findings, postmortem features, changes caused by cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and other pathological findings according to a worksheet that was composed of the possible findings previously reported. Agreement on detection and interpretation of findings between each reader was measured using Cohen's kappa coefficients.Results: For the detection of findings, there was substantial agreement among the four readers (kappa > 0.60, P < 0.0001). There was substantial (kappa > 0.60, P < 0.0001) and near-substantial (kappa = 0.60, P < 0.0001) agreement in the interpretation of the finding.Conclusion: Results of our study suggest equivalency on diagnosing PMCT regardless of the reader's level of experience. We conclude that the worksheet is useful for diagnosing PMCT in emergency departments. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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