Health information exchange reduces repeated diagnostic imaging for back pain

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 16-24

  Bailey, James E ^a   Pope, Rebecca A ^a,b   Elliott, Elizabeth C ^a   Wan, Jim Y ^a   Waters, Teresa M ^a   Frisse, Mark E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST CONTROL; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING STAFF; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST SAVINGS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84880785459     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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