Radiologists' reading times using PACS and using films: One practice's experience

Academic Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 453-460

  Fleishon, Howard B ^b   Bhargavan, Mythreyi ^a   Meghea, Cristian ^a  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^b Valley Radiologists Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

PACS; Productivity; Radiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIGITAL IMAGING; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RADIOLOGIST; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ULTRASOUND; X RAY FILM;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DOCUMENTATION; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKLOAD; X-RAY FILM;

EID: 33645076007     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2005.12.014     Document Type: Article

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