Do we need a National incident reporting system for medical imaging?

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 329-335

  Itri, Jason N ^a   Krishnaraj, Arun ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

error; GRID; Incident reporting; quality improvement; registry

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; AUSTRALIA; AVIATION; AWARENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORTING SYSTEM; MEDICAL LIABILITY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SAFETY;

EID: 84926231662     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2011.11.015     Document Type: Review

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