Using sonography to examine adult patients at an academic medical center: Have usage patterns changed with the expansion of managed care?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 179, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1395-1399

  Liebeskind, Marc E ^a,b   Arger, Peter H ^a   Liebeskind, Amy ^c   Maston, Keith ^a   Langlotz, Curtis ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Park Avenue Radiologists ^*  (United States)

^c LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST CONTROL; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MANAGED CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RELIABILITY; RETROPERITONEUM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 0036891754     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.179.6.1791395     Document Type: Article

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