Outside imaging in emergency department transfer patients: CD import reduces rates of subsequent imaging utilization

Radiology

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 408-413

  Sodickson, Aaron ^a   Opraseuth, Jonathan ^a   Ledbetter, Stephen ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; COMPACT DISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PELVIS; PICTURE ARCHIVING AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; COMPACT DISKS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT TRANSFER; RADIOLOGY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 79960689293     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11101956     Document Type: Article

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