{"id":89,"date":"2013-07-19T00:39:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/?p=89"},"modified":"2017-08-21T13:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T13:16:50","slug":"primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-diagnostic-radiation-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/2013\/07\/19\/primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-diagnostic-radiation-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest: Diagnostic Radiation Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>JAMA. 2012;307(22):2400-2409<\/i><\/p>\n<p>as many of you know from being exposed to my rantings, i am very concerned about excessive iatrogenic radiation exposure. (i believe exposure to my rantings are less toxic than the radiation).<\/p>\n<p>article in jama looks at 6 integrated health care delivery systems with 1-2 million people over 15 years. effective doubling of radiation exposure in this period , esp with CT scans (increased 3-fold). calculated anticipated 2% increased risk of cancer from this increased exposure (this may be an argument to dissuade some patients who seek a CT scan unnecessarily).<\/p>\n<p>geoff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diagnostic radiation exposure increasing and harmful [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/2013\/07\/19\/primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-diagnostic-radiation-exposure\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}