Diagnostic Imaging - Utilization
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

What causes increasing and unnecessary use of radiological investigations? A survey of radiologists' perceptions.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Growth in use and overuse of diagnostic imaging significantly impacts the quality and costs of health care services. What are the modifiable factors for increasing and unnecessary use of radiological services? Various factors have been ... Read more...

Image explosion. In the wake of modality advances, CIOs must please radiologists, store huge amounts of data, and not lose sight of the bottom line.

30 Jul 2009 All hospital organizations, but especially larger hospitals, teaching hospitals, and multi-hospital systems, are facing rapidly accelerating diagnostic imaging storage demands, driven by advances in modality capabilities and changing patient ... Read more...

Ethical issues for radiographers: general observations and a pilot qualitative study.

11 Jun 2009 This paper is based on general observation arising from many years experience in managing and delivering radiography services in the health service. In addition, it presents the results of a pilot qualitative study based on unstructured interviews. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Diagnostic Imaging - Utilization'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• What causes increasing and unnecessary use of radiological investigations? A survey of radiologists' perceptions. 30 Aug 2009
• Elements of danger--the case of medical imaging. 25 Aug 2009
• Inventive approaches curtail imaging costs. 30 Jul 2009
• Image explosion. In the wake of modality advances, CIOs must please radiologists, store huge amounts of data, and not lose sight of the bottom line. 30 Jul 2009
• Assessing the value of a diagnostic test. 25 Jul 2009
• Ethical issues for radiographers: general observations and a pilot qualitative study. 11 Jun 2009
• Using QRRO survey data to assess compliance with quality indicators for breast and prostate cancer. 30 May 2009
• The association between physician risk tolerance and imaging use in abdominal pain. 30 May 2009
• The appropriateness of imaging: a comprehensive conceptual framework. 30 May 2009
• Do clinicians use the American College of Radiology Appropriateness criteria in the management of their patients? 30 May 2009
• Rapidity and modality of imaging for acute low back pain in elderly patients. 23 May 2009
• Imaging idolatry: the uneasy intersection of patient satisfaction, quality of care, and overuse. 23 May 2009
• The risks of inappropriateness in cardiac imaging. 12 May 2009
• President's page: what is a cardiologist? 3 May 2009
• Management of pediatric blunt splenic injuries in Canada--practices and opinions. 29 Apr 2009
• Utilization of imaging: challenges and opportunities. 29 Apr 2009
• Face of Radiology campaign. 29 Apr 2009
• Diagnostic errors in patients dying in hospital: radiology's contribution. 30 Mar 2009
• Response to open peer commentaries for "Ethical considerations of providing screening tests to individuals when evidence is insufficient to support screening populations". 30 Mar 2009
• Health insurers and medical-imaging policy--a work in progress. 3 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Diagnostic Imaging'

Definition: Any visual display of structural or functional patterns of organs or tissues for diagnostic evaluation. It includes measuring physiologic and metabolic responses to physical and chemical stimuli, as well as ultramicroscopy.

Descriptor UI: D003952

Alternative terms: Diagnostic Imaging; Imaging, Diagnostic; Medical Imaging; Imaging, Medical;

Related Mesh Headings: Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; Phantoms, Imaging;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E01.370.350;

History Note: 88

Technical Notes: general: prefer specific techniques