The American College of Radiology has updated its ACR Appropriateness Criteria, adding 13 topics and revising six topics.
The criteria serve as a resource to ensure radiologists avoid providing unnecessary care and are reviewed annually by expert panels, according to a Nov. 12 news release from the organization.
The six revised topics are: breast implant evaluation, chronic foot pain, major blunt trauma, postmenopausal subacute or chronic pelvic pain, radiologic management of pulmonary nodules and masses, suspected physical abuse — child.
The 13 new topics are:
- Abdominal pain — child
- Chest pain — child
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Demyelinating diseases
- Evaluation of cardiac masses
- Imaging after liver transplant
- Ingested or aspirated foreign body — child
- Joint pain: Idiopathic arthritis — child
- Preprocedural chest or cardiac imaging for cardiothoracic surgery
- Staging and follow-up of gastric cancer
- Staging and follow-up of melanoma
- Staging and follow-up of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors
- Thoracic venous occlusions-suspected superior vena cava syndrome
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