The Impact of Acoustic Noise Found Within Clinical Departments on Radiology Performance

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 472-476

  Brennan, Patrick C ^a   Ryan, John ^a   Evanoff, Mike ^b   Toomey, Rachel ^a   O'Beirne, Aaron ^a   Manning, David ^c   Chakraborty, Dev P ^d   McEntee, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b American Board of Radiology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CUMBRIA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

amplitude; Chest lesions; decibels; reporting

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 40649094518     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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