Profile of patients utilizing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Computerized Tomography (CT) scan facility in a large tertiary care teaching hospital in North India

Radio diagnosis and Imaging department is an important department of a hospital that contributes directly to patient care by providing diagnostic support to all the specialties. The study was conducted to study the profile of patients utilizing MRI and CT scan facility in a large tertiary care teaching hospital.

A prospective study of one-year duration was carried out to study the profile of patients using MRI and CT scan facility at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar (J&K) India.

A total of 7171 number of patients were studied for utilization of MRI (1282) and CT scan (5889) facility at Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar. The highest (60.4%) numbers of CT Scans were done for scanning head which highlights the importance of CT scan machine. It was observed that most of scans (72.1% CT Abdomen, 82.9% CT Chest, and 80% MRI scans were with positive finding.

It was observed that most MRI and CT scans were with positive finding which indicated that CT scan and MRI are useful tools of investigations in a tertiary care hospital.