Expectations Among Academic Clinicians of Inpatient Imaging Turnaround Time: Does it Correlate with Satisfaction?

Academic Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1449-1456

  Chan, Keith T ^a   Carroll, Tamara ^a   Linnau, Ken F ^a   Lehnert, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coverage; RTAT; Satisfaction; Turnaround time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RESIDENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SATISFACTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TURNAROUND TIME; ULTRASOUND; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; STANDARDS; TIME FACTOR; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHYSICIANS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84944148833     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: 18784046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2015.06.019     Document Type: Article

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