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FDG PET/CT in cancer: comparison of actual use with literature-based recommendations
Henrik Petersen1 & Paw Christian Holdgaard2 & Poul Henning Madsen3 &
Lene Meldgaard Knudsen4 & Dorte Gad5 & Anders Eggert Gravergaard5 & Max Rohde6 &
Christian Godballe6 & Bodil Elisabeth Engelmann7 & Karsten Bech8 &
Dorte Teilmann-Jrgensen9 & Ole Mogensen10 & Jens Karstoft11 & Jrgen Johansen12 &
Janne Buck Christensen13 & Allan Johansen1 & Poul Flemming Hilund-Carlsen1 &
on behalf of the PET/CT Task Force of the Region of Southern Denmark
Received: 9 July 2015 /Accepted: 6 October 2015 /Published online: 30 October 2015 # The Author(s) 2015. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
AbstractPurpose The Region of Southern Denmark (RSD), covering 1.2 of Denmarks 5.6 million inhabitants, established a task force to (1) retrieve literature evidence for the clinical use of positron emission tomography (PET)/CT and provide consequent recommendations and further to (2) compare the actual use of PET/CT in the RSD with these recommendations. This article summarizes the results.
Methods A Work Group appointed a professional Subgroup which made Clinician Groups conduct literature reviews on six selected cancers responsible for 5,768 (62.6 %) of 9,213
PET/CT scans in the RSD in 2012. Rapid Evidence Assessment was applied, using the methodology of systematic reviews with predefined limitations to search PubMed, Embase and the Cochrane Library for articles published in English/ Danish/Swedish/Norwegian since 2002. PICO questions were defined, data recorded and quality appraised and rated with regard to strength and evidence level. Consequent recommendations for applications of PET/CT were established. The actual use of PET/CT was compared with these, where grades A and B indicated Bestablished^ and Buseful^ and grades C and D Bpotentially useful^ and Bnon-recommendable^ indications, respectively.
Henrik Petersen and Paw Christian Holdgaard contributed equally as first authors. Allan Johansen and Poul Flemming Hilund-Carlsen contributed equally as last authors.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00259-015-3217-0
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* Poul Flemming...