Emergency physician perceptions of medically unnecessary advanced diagnostic imaging

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 390-398

  Kanzaria, Hemal K ^a,b,c   Hoffman, Jerome R ^c,d   Probst, Marc A ^e   Caloyeras, John P ^f   Berry, Sandra H ^f   Brook, Robert H ^c,f,g,h  

^a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Emergency Medicine Center   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; MALPRACTICE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIANS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84926615911     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12625     Document Type: Conference Paper

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