Outside CT Imaging Among Emergency Department Transfer Patients

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 626-632

  Sung, Jeffrey C ^a   Sodickson, Aaron ^a   Ledbetter, Stephen ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; emergency department transfers; emergency treatment; information systems; resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CERVICAL SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPACT DISK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIVERTICULITIS; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOLOGIST; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPINE INJURY; WORKLOAD;

EID: 69249102128     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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