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What is CT Scan Head? Computed Tomography (CT) of the head is used to help identify injury, diagnose disease, detect and evaluate the extent of tumors or other brain insults, evaluate response to treatment, and help plan radiotherapy.


Reasons Taken

28 patients in the community are having or have had CT Scan Head.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 9 32%
diziness 4 14%
Support another treatment 3 10%
Headache 2 7%
Pain 1 3%
speech/talking difficulties 1 3%
Cognition 1 3%
Vision 1 3%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 5 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 100% 2

diziness

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 5

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 5 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 5)

  • Dymond
    Sensation: Moderate
    Overall: None
    Cognition: none
    Vision: mild
    Speech: none
    Swallowing: none
    Upper limb: none
    Walking: none
  • Dymond
  • by Dymond
    Nov 06, 2008
  • EfficacyCan't tell
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Other

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