Royal College Of Radiologists Guidelines For Abdominal Radiography Requests: Assessment Of Referring Clinicians’ Adherernce

ABSTRACT Plain abdominal radiography is believed to be over utilized as an investigation for acute abdominal complaints. Because of this, the Royal College of Radiologists published guidelines in order to minimise inappropriate requests. The aims of this research were to determine the level of referring clinicians’ adherence to these guidelines while making referrals, to determine whether professional status of the referring clinicians influences their adherence to the guideline, and finally to ascertain if abdominal radiography contribution to patients’ diagnosis is influenced by adherence t…