Disagreement in interpretation: A method for the development of benchmarks for quality assurance in imaging

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 212-217

  Soffa, David J ^c   Lewis, Rebecca S ^a   Sunshine, Jonathan H ^a,b   Bhargavan, Mythreyi ^a  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c American Imaging Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Disagreement rate; Imaging; Interpretation; Observer performance; Quality assurance; Self referral

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RADIOLOGIST; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ULTRASOUND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928096385     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2003.12.017     Document Type: Article

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