CT scan exposure in Spanish children and young adults by socioeconomic status: Cross-sectional analysis of cohort data.

ABSTRACT: Recent publications reported that children in disadvantaged areas undergo more CT scanning than others. The present study is aimed to assess the potential differences in CT imaging by socioeconomic status (SES) in Spanish young scanned subjects and if such differences vary with different indicators or different time point SES measurements. The associations between CT scanning and SES, and between the CT scan rate per patient and SES were investigated in the Spanish EPI-CT subcohort. Various SES indicators were studied to determine whether particular SES dimensions were more closely related to the probability of undergoing one or multiple CTs. Comparisons were made with indices based on 2001 and 2011 censuses. We found evidence of socio-economic variation among young people, mainly related

SUBMITTER: Bosch de Basea M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5933709 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature