Emergency MRI Utilization Trends at a Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center. Baseline Data

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 438-443

  Rankey, David ^a   Leach, James L ^a   Leach, Sabrina D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency radiology; Magnetic resonance imaging; utilization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 40649114503     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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