Socioeconomic and Demographic Predictors of Missed Opportunities to Provide Advanced Imaging Services

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2017, Pages 1403-1411

  Glover, McKinley ^a,b   Daye, Dania ^a   Khalilzadeh, Omid ^a,c   Pianykh, Oleg ^a   Rosenthal, Daniel I ^a   Brink, James A ^a   Flores, Efrén J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Massachusetts General Physicians Organization   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; health disparities; imaging missed care opportunities; MRI; Patient engagement; population health management

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ODDS RATIO; OUTPATIENT; RACE; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; DEMOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 85021445493     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2017.05.015     Document Type: Article

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