Practice patterns of radiologists and nonradiologists in utilization of noninvasive diagnostic imaging among the medicare all population 1993-1999

Radiology

Volumn 228, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 795-801

  Maitino, Andrea J ^a   Levin, David C ^a   Parker, Laurence ^a   Rao, Vijay M ^a   Sunshine, Jonathan H ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic radiology; Economics, medical; Radiology and radiologists, departmental management; Radiology and radiologists, socioeconomic issues

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; DENSITOMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; IMAGE QUALITY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RADIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042932285     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2283021254     Document Type: Article

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