The New Joint Commission Sentinel Event Pertaining to Prolonged Fluoroscopy

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 497-500

  Balter, Stephen ^a   Miller, Donald L ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DESQUAMATION; DOSIMETRY; ERYTHEMA; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL PRACTICE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOBIOLOGY; SENTINEL EVENT; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN FIBROSIS; SKIN INJURY; SKIN NECROSIS; SKIN ULCER;

EID: 34250802080     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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