Patient-centric radiation dose monitoring in the electronic health record: What are some of the barriers and key next steps?

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 752-753

  Sodickson, Aaron ^a   Khorasani, Ramin ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION MONITORING; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 84928096642     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2010.06.022     Document Type: Article

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