High-yield criteria for panoramic radiography. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6491917

White, S C; Forsythe, A B

Panoramic radiographs should be obtained when the examination offers the prospect of providing information that will assist in patient care. The purpose of this study was to determine whether high-yield criteria could be developed for the use of panoramic radiographs in the treatment planning of patients seeking dental care. Clinicians were asked what signs or symptoms caused them to order a panoramic radiograph upon patient admission into the UCLA Dental Clinic. At the time the patient was radiographed, a variety of demographic and clinical measures were recorded. The most important high-yield criterion for the panoramic examination is whether the radiograph is ordered for 'general screening examination' (a negative predictor) and whether the radiograph was ordered for any specific examination (a positive predictor). The use of these (or any other) decision rules required clinical judgment of the costs (social and economic) of a missed positive finding relative to that of an unproductive examination.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Los Angeles (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6491917
• Report Number(s): PB-82-229543
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
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COST
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DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
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NUCLEAR MEDICINE
PATIENTS
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