CT Helps Emergency Docs Treat Abdominal Pain

CT has an influential role in determining how patients presenting to the emergency department with nontraumatic abdominal complaints will be managed, a single-center study showed. Surveys of attending physicians and residents showed that the leading diagnosis was changed in nearly half of patients (48.6%) after a CT scan (P<0.00001), according to Hani Abujudeh, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard, and colleagues.