Radiation exposure and cost influence physician medical image decision making: A randomized controlled trial

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 628-632

  Gimbel, Ronald W ^a   Fontelo, Paul ^b   Stephens, Mark B ^c   Olsen, Cara H ^d   Bunt, Christopher ^c   Ledford, Christy J W ^a   Loveland Cook, Cynthia A ^e   Liu, Fang ^b   Burke, Harry B ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c MED Department   (United States)

^d Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^e SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical decision support; cost; decision making; medical imaging; patient safety; physicians; radiation exposure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REIMBURSEMENT;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, CLINICAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879881281     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182928fd5     Document Type: Article

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