Highlights
- •Survey data from a large national sample of volunteer hospital-based EDs shows wide variation in imaging utilization
- •ED sites with sustained participation in a national QI initiative showed significant reductions in imaging utilization
- •Imaging utilization rates from top-performing ED sites can serve as performance improvement targets for future QI efforts
- •Efforts to translate the Choosing Wisely campaign into practice should utilize benchmarking to sustain practice improvements
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E-QUAL (The Emergency Quality Network), QI (Quality Improvement)Keywords
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