Recommendations for additional imaging in radiology reports: Multifactorial analysis of 5.9 million examinations

Radiology

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 453-461

  Sistrom, Christopher L ^a   Dreyer, Keith J ^a   Dang, Pragya P ^a   Weilburg, Jeffrey B ^a   Boland, Giles W ^a   Rosenthal, Daniel I ^a   Thrall, James H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OUTPATIENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; RADIOLOGY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 73449092699     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2532090200     Document Type: Article

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