The Use of Computed Tomography of Pulmonary Angiogram in a District Hospital

Table 1

Comparison of the number of CTPA requests, the number of inpatient admissions, and the frequency of CTPA by different referrers.

Referral source	No. of PE	No. of CTPA	Total no. of admissions*	No. of CTPA per 100 admissions
Emergency	6	43	7,093	0.61
General Medicine	3	27	1,496	1.80
General Surgery	1	9	1,338	0.67
Orthopaedics	1	3	405	0.74
O&G^a	0	1	596	0.17
ATR^b	1	5	118	4.24
Total	12	88	11,046	0.80

 *Represents the number of inpatient admissions in total for each department during the study period.
^aObstetrics and Gynaecology.
^bAssessment Treatment and Rehabilitation unit.