Will CT Ordering Practices Change if We Educate Residents About the Potential Effects of Radiation Exposure?. Experience at a Large Academic Medical Center.

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1447-1452

  Horowitz, Jeanne M ^a   Yaghmai, Vahid ^a   Miller, Frank H ^a   Russell, Eric J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Education; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RESIDENT; ULTRASOUND;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOLOGY; RISK; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053613334     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2011.07.006     Document Type: Article

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