Relying on pre-established dose guidance can keep patients from undergoing clinically necessary exams, top radiation safety organizations cautioned in a new joint statement.

The American Medical Group Association says clinicians should be able to delay the instant release of info by 24-72 hours if they believe such access will harm patients. 

Duke University Medical Center scheduled additional exams for 60% of incidental findings, and many were later diagnosed as serious problems.

Reimbursement will go into effect on Oct. 1 and cover ultrasound acquisitions for 461 diagnostic resource groups, including heart failure, stroke and other common cardiovascular concerns.

Providers share some of the blame, and should provide patients with written documentation of the offending contrast material, experts argued in Clinical Imaging.

Thirty-five different techniques for administering diuretics are used across 105 sites, authors reported in JACR.

18F-FET PET/MR also changed providers' clinical management plans in more than 30% of cases, experts reported recently.

Deep learning-based algorithms can serve as a second reader to limit variability in PI-RADS assessments, researchers reported in the European Journal of Radiology.