Factors Affecting Attending Agreement with Resident Early Readings of Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Head, Neck, and Spine

Academic Radiology

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 934-941

  Sistrom, Chris ^a   Deitte, Lori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

performance evaluation; Quality assessment; resident education; resident faculty agreement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FACULTY STUDENT RELATION; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; JOB PERFORMANCE; LEARNING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NECK; NEURORADIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOLOGIST; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SPINE; VARIANCE; WORKLOAD;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURORADIOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47749150287     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2008.02.013     Document Type: Article

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