The value of routine radiology in young psychiatric patients.
The current policy of obtaining routine skull and chest X-rays on all psychiatric admissions to military hospitals has been examined by scrutiny of the radiology reports on all such admissions during one calendar year. No clinically unexpected finding was demonstrated in any of the 352 patients so examined. Routine radiological investigation of these patients may safely be abandoned.
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Dept of Radiology, Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich, London.
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006772:Hospitals, Military; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D011859:Radiography; D006113:United Kingdom