The impact of routine admission abdominal sonography on patient care

✍ Scribed by Johan J Verbanck; Filip van Aelst; Louis Rutgeerts; Hilde Demuynck; Gilbert Ghillebert; Philippe Vergauwe; Hendrik Tytgat; Marc Segaert

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 350 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2751
• DOI: 10.1002/jcu.1870160906

✦ Synopsis

In a prospective study of 1000 consecutive patients, abdominal sonography added diagnostic information to that available by history and physical examination in 8.98. The yield ranged from a high of 27.4% in patients with acute abdominal symptoms to a low of 2 . 7 6 in screening sonograms of patients without abdominal symptoms. Sonographically guided biopsy-proven diagnoses were obtained in 6.6% of the patients and were clinically not suspected in 4.4%. The percentage of falsepositive and false-negative sonographic studies was 0.5% and 1.1 %, respectively. Sonography shortened the duration of hospitalization in 15.3%.