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Emergency Department Resource Use in Pediatric Pneumonia: Point‐of‐Care Lung Ultrasonography versus Chest Radiography

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Point‐of‐care lung ultrasonography (US) is an alternative to chest radiography for imaging of suspected community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children. We compared pediatric emergency department (ED) time metrics between children who… Click to show full abstract

Point‐of‐care lung ultrasonography (US) is an alternative to chest radiography for imaging of suspected community‐acquired pneumonia (CAP) in children. We compared pediatric emergency department (ED) time metrics between children who received point‐of‐care lung US versus chest radiography. Secondary objectives were comparisons of health system costs and other resources in these imaging groups.

Keywords: point care; care lung; chest radiography

Journal Title: Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
Year Published: 2019

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