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The authors evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on utilization of cardiothoracic imaging studies. The authors queried the radiology record system to retrospectively identify numbers of specific key cardiothoracic imaging studies for five years prior and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilization of thoracic CT was decreased during the pandemic, with 21.8 (SD 12.9) studies daily compared to 52.0 (SD 21.4) (p and amp;lt; 0.0001) studies daily in 2019. Cardiac imaging utilization was also substantially decreased in 2020 compared to 2019, averaging a total of 3 . . .
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