Publications by authors named "Jamlik O Johnson"
Purpose: To study the impact of a contrast mitigation protocol on imaging utilization for pulmonary embolism (PE) in the emergency department (ED).
Material And Methods: Medical records of ED patients with suspected PE who underwent CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) or ventilation-perfusion (VQ) scans were analyzed in control (3/15/22-4/15/22) and test (5/15/22-6/15/22) periods. The test period included a contrast mitigation protocol due to a global iodinated contrast shortage (05/2022-06/2022).
Background: To evaluate the utilization and efficacy of various treatments for management of adult patients with splenic trauma, highlighting the evolving role of splenic artery embolization.
Materials And Methods: The National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) was queried for patients who sustained splenic trauma between 2007 and 2015, excluding those with death on arrival and selected nonsplenic high-grade injuries. Patients were categorized into (1) nonoperative management (NOM), (2) embolization, (3) splenectomy, (4) splenic repair, and (5) combined treatment groups.
In May 2015, the Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference "Diagnostic imaging in the emergency department: a research agenda to optimize utilization" was held. The goal of the conference was to develop a high-priority research agenda regarding emergency diagnostic imaging on which to base future research. In addition to representatives from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, the multidisciplinary conference included members of several radiology organizations: American Society for Emergency Radiology, Radiological Society of North America, the American College of Radiology, and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
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- Researchers are focused on improving the use of imaging in emergency departments by identifying key clinical variables that predict acute diseases and help avoid unnecessary imaging.
- Despite proven benefits from these evidence-based guidelines, their implementation in practice remains limited.
- A research agenda was established to explore barriers and facilitators affecting the use of these guidelines, propose institutional and policy-level strategies for better adoption, and leverage health information technology to enhance awareness and compliance with evidence-based imaging protocols.
Purpose: To assess the effect of automatically inserted technical details on the concordance of a radiology report header with the actual procedure performed.
Methods And Materials: The study was IRB approved and informed consent was waived. We obtained radiology report audit data from the hospital's compliance office from the period of January 2005 through December 2009 spanning a total of 20 financial quarters.