PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - P. B. Guyer
AU  - A. G. Chalmers
TI  - Chest radiography for general practitioners—a low yield investigation
DP  - 1983 Aug 01
TA  - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
PG  - 477--479
VI  - 33
IP  - 253
4099  - http://bjgp.org/content/33/253/477.short
4100  - http://bjgp.org/content/33/253/477.full
SO  - J R Coll Gen Pract1983 Aug 01; 33
AB  - Of 1,163 chest rediographs requested by general practitioners, 67.5 per cent were normal, 21 per cent revealed an apparently relevant lesion, and 11.5 per cent an apparently irrelevant abnormality. The number of referrals for chest radiography should be reduced to cut costs in an expensive specialty.