The Potential Value of Calcium Scans

There is some potential value to these scans and that we did find that there was a modest increase in discrimination as measured by the C statistic. However, when we looked at whether this would actually translate into clinical utility...Dr. Brown: The exact group of patients who benefit from them is really not that clear yet. It needs to be weighed against like this potential but uncertain benefit are the clear risk of harms,. Dr. Brown: There's actually quite large carbon footprints associated with imaging tests.