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  • Neuroimaging in a memory assessment service: a completed audit cycle
  • Tarun Kuruvilla, Rui Zheng, Ben Soden, Sarah Greef, Iain Lyburn
  • Journal: The Psychiatric Bulletin / Volume 38 / Issue 1 / February 2014
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018, pp. 24-28
  • Print publication: February 2014
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    Aims and method

    A clinical audit was used to compare neuroimaging practice in a memory assessment service prior to and 6 months after implementation of guidance, developed from national and European guidelines and adapted to local resource availability, with multislice computed tomography (CT) as first-line structural imaging procedure.

    Results

    Referrals to the service nearly doubled from the initial audit to the re-audit. Patients having at least one neuroimaging procedure increased from 68 to 76%. Patients with no reason documented for not having imaging significantly reduced from 50% to less than 1%. Despite the larger number of referrals, the mean waiting times for the scans only increased from 22 to 30 days. Variations in practice between the sectors reduced.

    Clinical implications

    Disseminating evidence-based guidelines adapted to local resource availability appears to have standardised neuroimaging practice in a memory assessment service. Further research into the clinical and cost benefits of the increased scanning is planned.