Emergency Department Image Interpretation Services at Private Community Hospitals

Radiology

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 190-197

  Saketkhoo, Daniel D ^a,b   Bhargavan, Mythreyi ^c   Sunshine, Jonathan H ^c   Forman, Howard P ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

^c AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency radiology; Images, interpretation; Radiology and radiologists; Radiology and radiologists, departmental management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOLOGIST; TECHNIQUE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1642273979     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2311030307     Document Type: Article

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