A comprehensive portrait of teleradiology in radiology practices: Results from the American College of Radiology's 1999 survey

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-35

  Larson, David B ^a   Cypel, Yasmin S ^b   Forman, Howard P ^c,d   Sunshine, Jonathan H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGIST; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELERADIOLOGY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GROUP PRACTICE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCINTISCANNING; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GROUP PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIVATE PRACTICE; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TELERADIOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 24644490951     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.185.1.01850024     Document Type: Review

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