Exposing exposure: Enhancing patient safety through automated data mining of nuclear medicine reports for quality assurance and organ dose monitoring

Radiology

Volumn 264, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 406-413

  Ikuta, Ichiro ^a   Sodickson, Aaron ^a   Wasser, Elliot J ^a   Warden, Graham I ^a,b   Gerbaudo, Victor H ^a   Khorasani, Ramin ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; SODIUM IODIDE I 131; TECHNETIUM 99M;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL DATA REPOSITORY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA MINING; DOSIMETRY; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HISTOGRAM; INFORMATION CENTER; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA MINING; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84864365537     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12111823     Document Type: Article

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