Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample and the national Multiple Cause-of-Death files, Wiener et al found that since the inception of CT-angiography in 1998, the number of CT-PE scans have risen 11-fold, and age-adjusted incidence of pulmonary embolism rose from 62 to 112 per 100,000 (an 81% increase).
Overdiagnosis of PEs on CT-angiograms seems…
Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample and the national Multiple Cause-of-Death files, Wiener et al found that since the inception of CT-angiography in 1998, the number of CT-PE scans have risen 11-fold, and age-adjusted incidence of pulmonary embolism rose from 62 to 112 per 100,000 (an 81% increase).