Quantifying Radiation Safety and Quality in Medical Imaging, Part 3: The Quality Assurance Scorecard

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 694-700

  Reiner, Bruce I ^a  

^a BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

data mining; evidence based medicine; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION; RADIATION SAFETY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 70349440965     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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