Trends in non-focal neurological chief complaints and CT angiography utilization among adults in the emergency department

Internal and Emergency Medicine(2024)

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Prudent imaging use is essential for cost reduction and efficient patient triage. Recent efforts have focused on head and neck CTA in patients with emergent concerns for non-focal neurological complaints, but have failed to demonstrate whether increases in utilization have resulted in better care. The objective of this study was to examine trends in head and neck CTA ordering and determine whether a correlation exists between imaging utilization and positivity rates. This is a single-center retrospective observational study at a quaternary referral center. This study includes patients presenting with headache and/or dizziness to the emergency department between January 2017 and December 2021. Patients who received a head and neck CTA were compared to those who did not. The main outcomes included annual head and neck CTA utilization and positivity rates, defined as the percent of scans with attributable acute pathologies. Among 24,892 emergency department visits, 2264 (9.1
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CTA,Head and neck,Emergency department,Headache,Dizziness,Imaging
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