Impact of picture archiving communication systems on rates of duplicate imaging: A before-after study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  You, John J ^a,b   Yun, Lingsong ^b   Tu, Jack V ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DUPLICATE IMAGING; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEAD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; STATISTICS; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; HEAD; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HOSPITALIZATION; ONTARIO; PELVIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 57049165438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-234     Document Type: Article

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