Contrast Medium Use in Computed Tomography for Patients Presenting with Headache: 4-year Retrospective Two-Center Study in Central and Western Regions of Ghana
Table 1
Patients characteristic of contrast CT and noncontrast CT head examinations, 2017–2020.
Variables
Category
Contrast enhancement
-value
Contrast, n = 382 (%)
Noncontrast, N = 95 (%)
Age (years)
Mean (±SD)
38.43 (±17.64)
40.06 (±14.76)
0.002α
1–10
10 (2.6)
2 (2.1)
11–20
36 (9.4)
1 (1.1)
21–30
42 (11.0)
10 (10.5)
31–40
75 (19.6)
12 (12.6)
41–50
46 (12.0)
10 (10.5)
51–60
31 (8.1)
8 (8.4)
61–70
13 (3.4)
4 (4.2)
>70
18 (4.7)
0 (0.0)
Unspecified
11 (29.1)
48 (50.5)
Gender
Male
184 (48.2)
38 (40.0)
0.153β
Female
198 (51.8)
57 (60.0)
Facility
CCTH
194 (50.8)
3 (3.2)
<0.0001α
RAAJ
188 (49.2)
92 (96.8)
Type of headache
Acute/severe
25 (6.5)
5 (5.3)
0.572β
Chronic
28 (7.3)
6 (6.3)
Traumatic
10 (2.6)
5 (5.3)
Unspecified
319 (83.5)
79 (83.2)
Category
Contrast enhancement
-value
CCTH: Cape Coast Teaching Hospital; RAAJ: RAAJ Specialist Scan center; β Chi-square test of association; α Fischer exact test of association.
