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Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News Associate Editor | August 11, 2011
Images from the two groups did not significantly differ in quality, the authors said.
But hospital-based scanning was more likely to trigger a delirium episode. After being scanned in the hospital, 17 percent of the patients, whose average age was 78, experienced delirium. None of the home-scanned patients did, the authors said.
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The quality of the images captured by the mobile X-rays wasn't entirely surprising, according to a radiologist with the American College of Radiology.
"The type of patients they're talking about, at least some of the time, if they were in the hospital, they'd have a portable study done," Dr. Paul Larsen, chair of the ACR Quality and Safety Commission, told DOTmed News. "Is that really different, doing a portable exam in the hospital versus in the home? Not necessarily."
"I think from the ACR standpoint, our main concern would be high quality work is done, and that's obviously something they address in the study," Larsen added.
Nonetheless, the authors caution that the sample size was small and only performed at one center, so the results might not be applicable generally.
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