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Purpose
Endorsing organisations
The Acute Coronary Syndromes Clinical Care Standard was endorsed by the following organisations:
The following organisations have endorsed the 2020 Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard:
A Topic Working Group made up of individuals with expertise in the management of stroke, experience in the Australian healthcare system, as well as consumer representatives, was convened to provide clinical advice, expertise and input into the development of the standard in 2015.
Dedicated Healthdirect paediatric CT resources page
A study led by Professor John Mathews has indicated that there is a higher risk of a person developing cancer in later life if they were exposed to ionising radiation from a CT scan as a child.1
In Australia, many children and young people under the age of 20 have a computed tomography (CT) scan each year.