Transvaginal ultrasounds in nonpregnant emergency department patients with abnormal uterine bleeding

Given increasing ED crowding concerns and efforts to encourage appropriate imaging utilization, there may be opportunities to safely defer imaging to an outpatient setting [8-11]. [...]the primary purpose of this study was to determine the proportion of nonpregnant patients with acute abnormal uterine bleeding who receive a TVUS. [...]because this study involved a single quaternary care hospital with radiology performed TVUS, the ability to generalize the results to other hospitals or practice settings may be limited. [...]a majority of nonpregnant patients with acute abnormal uterine bleeding had a TVUS performed in the ED.