analysis of one thousand chest radiographs at a secondary care center

ABSTRACT

To find the workload of radiology department consisting of chest x-ray, clinical notes writing trends, and, percentage of radiographs showing abnormalities, One Thousand Chest X-Rays were studied at the department of radiology, CMH Murree from April 2002 to August 2002. Chest x-ray made up 28% of the workload. Three major symptoms of patients were cough [7%], Fever [6%] and chest pain [5%]. Only 9.2% films had significant findings. Pulmonary Tuberculosis [2.1%] cardiomegaly [2.1%] consolidation [1.4%] and pleural effusion [.8%] were the major radiological findings. X-ray chest constitutes the major bulk of radiographic workload at our institution and Tuberculosis was the commonest radiological finding: