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Published Online: July 1979

Routine Thoracic Radiography for Psychiatric Inpatients

Edward H. Liston, Robert H. Gerner, Alan C. Robertson, and Charles V. FordAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: Psychiatric Services

Volume 30, Number 7

https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.30.7.474

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Screening chest x-rays are routinely obtained for psychiatric as well as other patients. The authors present data that suggest that this practice no longer has a sound medical basis and should be eliminated or modified. It is unlikely that routine radiography of the chest is of practical benefit to adult psychiatric patients who are clinically healthy and are under age 40.

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Psychiatric Services

Volume 30 • Number 7 • July 1979

Pages: 474 - 476

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Published in print: July 1979

Published online: 1 April 2006

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Edward H. Liston

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Robert H. Gerner

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Alan C. Robertson

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Charles V. Ford

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Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles

Department of Psychiatry School of Medicine Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tennessee

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Routine Thoracic Radiography for Psychiatric Inpatients

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