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Table 1 Relative value units

From: Workload for radiologists during on-call hours: dramatic increase in the past 15 years

	RVU XR	RVU US	RVU CT	Total RVU
2006	3315	586	2286	6187
2007	7740	1083	6350	15,172
2008	7998	1384	7005	16,387
2009	9519	1593	7685	18,796
2010	9687	2275	11,039	23,000
2011	8559	2143	9486	20,188
2012	7188	1735	9804	18,727
2013	6753	1687	11,262	19,702
2014	6273	2102	11,079	19,454
2015	6753	2257	12,426	21,436
2016	6273	2108	17,129	25,510
2017	7026	2177	16,451	25,653
2018	6381	1988	16,191	24,560
2019	5733	1878	14,934	22,545
2020	5415	1737	17,432	24,584

Relative value units of on-call studies for the entire month of January of the years 2006 through 2020
RVU relative value units, US ultrasound, CT computed tomography

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