Clarifying the relationship between nonradiologists' financial interest in imaging and their utilization of imaging

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Bhargavan, Mythreyi ^a,b   Sunshine, Jonathan H ^c,d   Hughes, Danny R ^e  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Financial interest; Health economics; Imaging; Self referral; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; HUMANS; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN SELF-REFERRAL; PHYSICIANS; PROBABILITY; RADIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054893422     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.11.7019     Document Type: Article

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