Emergency department digital radiology: Moving from photos to pixels

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1213-1222

  White, Faber A ^a   Zwemer Jr , Frank L ^a,b   Beach, Christopher ^a   Westesson, Per Lennart ^a   Fairbanks, Rollin J ^a   Scialdone, Gary ^a  

^a Division of Neuro Radiology   (United States)

^b Box 655 Rochester NY 14642 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

diagnostic imaging; digitized images; emergency department; PACS; radiology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FORECASTING; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 7444271608     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.08.016     Document Type: Article

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