PQI Connect http://pqi.arrs.org The ARRS established this dedicated section of its Web site to provide Society members and other members of the extended radiology profession an inclusive repository for practical information and links to relevant information pertaining to the development of quality assurance programs and reporting mechanisms in radiology, as well as insightful opinions and commentary from leading ARRS members and industry experts. en-us Copyright 2008 ARRS Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:09:59 PST PQI Connect http://pqi.arrs.org/images/PQI_Logo.gif http://pqi.arrs.org Clinical Practice Guidelines: Body Scan to Boost Cancer Treatment http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hL4jaRdaTlBKw8rCPFPDdhG_XxUA?docId=N0224121292730932548A Mon, 20 Dec 2010 Patient Safety: Radio Ablation Safe, Effective in Liver Cancer Patients http://www.medpagetoday.com/Gastroenterology/GeneralHepatology/23962 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Multitransmit MR Improves Lumbar Spine Imaging at 3 Tesla http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=rca&sub=rsna_2010&pag=dis&itemID=93518 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 Patient Safety: Vessel Targeting Enhances Uterine Fibroid Ablation http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?d=1&sec=sup&sub=wom&pag=dis&ItemID=93499 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 Patient Safety: Cardiac CT Has Prognostic Value for Coronary Disease http://www.medpagetoday.com/Radiology/DiagnosticRadiology/23802 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 Patient Safety: CTA Reveals African-Americans Have More Unstable Plaque http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=rca&sub=rsna_2010&pag=dis&itemID=93408 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 Patient Safety: Brain MRI Recommended for Children With Hydrocephalus http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=rca&sub=rsna_2010&pag=dis&itemID=93464 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 Reporting Timeliness: CTRad Dose Debate Finds Common Ground http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=25410&division=hiit Mon, 06 Dec 2010 Patient Safety: Autism MRI Test May Detect Disorder Quicker in High-Functioning Patients http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-02/autism-mri-test-may-detect-disorder-quicker-in-high-functioning-patients.html Fri, 03 Dec 2010 Patient Safety: Lung Cancer Outweighs Breast Cancer Risk in Chest CT http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?Sec=rca&Sub=rsna_2010&Pag=dis&ItemId=93459&wf=4097 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 Quality Awareness: Nonradiologists Power Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Growth http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?d=1&sec=rca&sub=rsna_2010&pag=dis&itemID=93452 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Radiology Report Form for Pulmonary Nodules Encourages Evidence-Based Practice http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/conference-reports/rsna2010/content/article/113619/1743112 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Cardiac Imaging Dose Strategies Attract Close Evaluation http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/conference-reports/rsna2010/content/article/113619/1743239 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 Patient Safety: Total Resection, Surgery With RT Best for Brain Tumors in Kids http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?d=1&Sec=sup&Sub=ped&Pag=dis&ItemId=93385 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Short Shifts May Help Even Out Polyp Detection Rates http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?Sec=sup&Sub=imc&Pag=dis&ItemId=93194 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Tomosynthesis Uncovers Occult Scaphoid Fractures http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?Sec=sup&Sub=xra&Pag=dis&ItemId=93105 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: Simple Calcium Counting at Chest CT Predicts Mortality Risk http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?d=1&Sec=sup&Sub=car&Pag=dis&ItemId=93153 Mon, 29 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: Children's Radiation Exposure During Cardiac Procedures Reduced By New Protocol http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/207882.php Mon, 22 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: fMRI Gauges Concussions in High School Football Players http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?Sec=sup&Sub=mri&Pag=dis&ItemId=93049 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Big Cumulative Doses Seen at Cardiac SPECT MPI http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?d=1&Sec=sup&Sub=cto&Pag=dis&ItemId=93001 Mon, 22 Nov 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: FDG PET/CT Valuable in Staging and Follow-up of Anal Carcinoma http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=25196&division=hiit&division=hiit Fri, 19 Nov 2010 Quality Awareness: Combination CT Scans May Make Heart Tests Easier http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/17/combination-ct-scans-may-make-heart-tests-easier/ Fri, 19 Nov 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: iPhone Can Aid in Triage of Head Injury Patients http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?d=1&Sec=sup&Sub=pac&Pag=dis&ItemId=92945 Fri, 19 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: PEM Less Likely to Prompt Unnecessary Biopsies http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=mri&pag=dis&ItemID=92949&wf=4061 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 Quality Awareness: Researchers Combine Optical, X-ray Tomo Techniques to Better ID Breast Cancer http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/digital-mammography/content/article/113619/1724390 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: Simple Steps Translate to Less Fluoro Radiation for Kids http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?d=1&Sec=sup&Sub=car&Pag=dis&ItemId=93002 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Study: MR Molecular Probes Show Promise in Early Detection of Ovarian Cancers http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=25107&division=hiit&division=hiit Mon, 15 Nov 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: In Partnership, Some Gastroenterologists Embrace VC http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?d=1&Sec=sup&Sub=vco&Pag=dis&ItemId=92799 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: Use of Head CTA Scans Surges in Medicare Patients http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?Sec=sup&Sub=cto&Pag=dis&ItemId=92670 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: Pediatric Rads Choose CT for PE, Dose Knowledge Limited http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=25091&division=hiit&division=hiit Fri, 12 Nov 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: VC May Increase Colon Cancer Screening, Survey Shows http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?Sec=sup&Sub=vco&Pag=dis&ItemId=92814 Fri, 12 Nov 2010 Quality Awareness: FDA Reclassifies Certain Digital Mammography Devices http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm232505.htm Wed, 10 Nov 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Combined X-ray and Optical Tomography Improve Breast Imaging http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?Sec=sup&Sub=wom&Pag=dis&ItemId=92803 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 Quality Awareness: F.D.A. Urges Two Steps for Safer CT Scans http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/health/policy/09scan.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper Wed, 10 Nov 2010 Quality Awareness: Self-employed Urologists Order More Imaging http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A450Y20101105 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: PET/MR Uncovers Prolonged Damage After Traumatic Brain Injury http://www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?Sec=sup&Sub=mri&Pag=dis&ItemId=92747&d=1 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: Radiology: Gamma Imaging Superior to Mammo for Dense Breasts http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A450Y20101105 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: CT Scans Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths by 20% Compared With X-rays http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/04/AR2010110402853.html Fri, 05 Nov 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: New Stool DNA Test Finds Adenomas as Well as Colon Cancer http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=vco&pag=dis&ItemID=92553&wf=4026 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 Quality Awareness: New RT technologies Impressive, But Require Honest Assessment http://www.auntminnie.com/index.aspx?d=1&sec=sup&sub=roc&pag=dis&ItemID=92583&wf=4026 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: Risk Factors for the Spread of Breast Cancer to Lymph Nodes Identified http://www.cancer-health.info/?p=24904 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: MRI Could Help Clock Time of Stroke http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/14669/ Wed, 03 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: ASTRO: Adding Radiation Ups Survival, Reduces Recurrence http://www.doctorslounge.com/index.php/news/pb/15218 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 Quality Awareness: CT Colonography Not Threatened by DNA-based Cancer Detection Tests, Experts Say http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/ct-colonography/content/article/113619/1709213 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 Quality Awareness: Targeted Radiation Therapy May Slow Pancreatic Cancer Progression http://www.hcwreview.com/?p=2158 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 Patient Safety: For Pediatric Appendicitis, Ultrasound Cuts Radiation, Saves Time Over CAT Scans http://www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?Sec=sup&Sub=ult&Pag=dis&ItemId=92190 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 Patient Safety: Diagnostic Errors 'Greatest Threat to Patient Safety in Hospitals,' Claims Senior UK Doctor http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100909193404.htm Mon, 04 Oct 2010 Quality Awareness: Calif. Governor Signs Medical Radiation Bill Into Law http://www.auntminnie.com/index.asp?Sec=sup&Sub=imc&Pag=dis&ItemId=92208 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 Patient Safety: Accreditation Canada Report Explores the Connection Between Patient Safety and Quality of Worklife in Health Care http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/September2010/29/c5968.html Fri, 01 Oct 2010 Patient Safety: Paying Doctors for Patient Performance http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/health/01chen.html?_r=1 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Integrated PET/CT in Evaluating Sarcomatous Transformation in Osteochondromas http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19487843?dopt=Abstract Thu, 04 Mar 2010 Patient Safety: Safety of MRI in Preterm Infants http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123294847/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 Patient Safety: JACR: High Percentage of Imaging Exams Found To be Unnecessary, Inappropriate http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&task=view&id=20923&division=hiit Mon, 01 Mar 2010 Patient Safety: CT Scan Manufacturers to Install Radiation Controls http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-25-ct-scans-radiation_N.htm Sun, 28 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Breast Cancer Task Force Got it Wrong http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/feb/28/breast-cancer-task-force-got-it-wrong/?partner=yahoo_feeds Sun, 28 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Most Experts Say Radiation Needs to Be Regulated http://www.news-leader.com/article/20100228/NEWS01/2280376/-1/RSS Sun, 28 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Is The Person Exposing You to Radiation Qualified? http://www.asrt.org Sun, 28 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Makers of CT Scanners Will Install Safety Controls to Prevent Excess Radiation Dosing http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-us-radiation-scans-safety,0,7180675.story Sun, 28 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Device Cos Unveil System To Avoid Overexposing Patients To Radiation http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100225-716706.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines Sun, 28 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: At Hearing on Radiation, Calls for Better Oversight http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/health/policy/27radiation.html?ref=health Sat, 27 Feb 2010 What's New: Call for Volunteers for ACR/AMA-PCPI Project Testing Radiology Performance Measures http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/ACRNewsCenter/Call-for-Vols.aspx Sat, 27 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Breast Cancer Screening: No Added Value Through Mammography http://www3.uni-bonn.de/Press-releases/breast-cancer-screening-no-added-value-through-mammography Sat, 27 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Scanning for Skin Cancer: Infrared System Looks for Deadly Melanoma http://releases.jhu.edu/2010/02/26/scanning-for-skin-cancer-infrared-system-looks-for-deadly-melanoma/ Sat, 27 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Access to Mammograms Drops after Guidelines Change http://www.fox4now.com/global/story.asp?s=12031446 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: MRI: The Next Generation http://imagingbiz.com/articles/view/mri-the-next-generation/ Thu, 25 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Fitness Boosts Brain Power in Multiple Sclerosis Patients http://healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=636284 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Radiation Errors Reported in Missouri http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/us/25radiation.html Thu, 25 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: New Heart CT Scans Deliver Far Less Radiation: Study http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/636130.html Wed, 24 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Lower-dose Radiation Regimen for Breast Cancer Less Harmful to Quality of Life http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/022310/page3 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: 'Image and Treat': An Individualized Approach to Urological Tumors http://www.urotoday.com/61/browse_categories/prostate_cancer/image_and_treat_an_individualized_approach_to_urological_tumors__abstract02232010.html Wed, 24 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: CMS Conducts Imaging Efficiency Measures 'Dry Run' http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=20777:cms-conducts-imaging-efficiency-measures-dry-run Wed, 24 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Lower Is Safer http://www.acr.org/SecondaryMainMenuCategories/NewsPublications/FeaturedCategories/ACRBulletin/Archives/2010Bulletins/Feb2010.aspx#page=8 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 Double Read: Computer-Aided Detection of Architectural Distortion in Prior Mammograms of Interval Cancer http://www.springerlink.com/content/n5l0t51637173328/ Tue, 23 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: The Breast Cancer Debate, cont'd http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/22/AR2010022203666.html Tue, 23 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Combined Mammography and Breast MRI Useful for Some High-Risk Women http://www.rsna.org/media/pressreleases/pr_target.cfm?ID=467 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: New Cardiac CT Technology Drastically Reduces Patient Radiation Exposure http://www.rsna.org/media/pressreleases/pr_target.cfm?ID=466 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 What's New: Good Day, CT Scan: The Beatles' Legacy Compounds Health Costs http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021905963.html?referrer=emailarticle Sun, 21 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Good Day, CT Scan: The Beatles' Legacy Compounds Health Costs http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021905963.html?referrer=emailarticle Sun, 21 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Comprehensive Cancer Centers Reduce Cancer Deaths, Says U.S. Expert http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/news/5867/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 What's New: NCOA Releases Survey on Medical Imaging Safety http://www.ncoa.org/press-room/press-release/ncoa-releases-survey-on.html Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: NCOA Releases Survey on Medical Imaging Safety http://www.ncoa.org/press-room/press-release/ncoa-releases-survey-on.html Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: NCOA Releases Survey on Medical Imaging Safety http://www.ncoa.org/press-room/press-release/ncoa-releases-survey-on.html Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: MGMA: Practices Still Frustrated with PQRI Program http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=20650 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: U.S. Drug Frm Drops Libel Action Against Scientist http://zmarter.com/science/us-drug-firm-drops-libel-action-against-scientist.html Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Duke Scientists Image Brain at Point When Vocal Learning Begins http://www.dukehealth.org/health_library/news/duke_scientists_image_brain_at_point_when_vocal_learning_begins Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Interview with Dr. Manning, Expert Radiologist: Pitfalls of Cancer Imaging http://cancergrace.org/cancer-101/2010/02/18/manning-pitfalls-of-cancer-imaging/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: CDC: MRIs, Other Medical Scans in ER Quadruple http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKpzfvqS5r6eBkACIMi9lNDT75PAD9DU6HUG1 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Technology, Medical Tests 'Changing the Face of Health Care' http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-18-nationalhealth18_ST_N.htm Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Initiative to Reduce Medical Imaging Radiation Exposure http://www.sbsun.com/living/ci_14421240 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Research Offers Only a Limited View of Imaging's Effect on Patient Outcomes http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/303/7/599?home Wed, 17 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: We Have to Calm Dose Hysteria...RIGHT NOW! http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/display/article/113619/1523991 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Predicting Post-External Beam Radiation Therapy PSA Relapse of Prostate Cancer Using Pretreatment MRI http://www.urotoday.com/61/browse_categories/prostate_cancer/predicting_postexternal_beam_radiation_therapy_psa_relapse_of_prostate_cancer_using_pretreatment_mri__abstract02162010.html Wed, 17 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: A Lower Overall Radiotherapy Dose Given in Fewer, Larger Daily Doses Can Result in Better Quality of Life for Patients With Breast Cancer http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/179205.php Wed, 17 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Reactor May Aid in Shortage of Isotope Used in Medicine http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/health/17isotope.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Tue, 16 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Response-to-FDA-Announcement-bw-998442920.html?x=0&.v=1 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Medical Imaging Manufacturers Unveil Eight Key Principles to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure and Medical Errors http://www.medicalimaging.org/news/20100212b.cfm Mon, 15 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Medical Imaging Manufacturers Encouraged by FDA's Radiation Dose Initiative http://www.medicalimaging.org/news/20100209a.cfm Fri, 12 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Less Is More in Cancer Imaging http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=13690 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: PET/CT May Detect Colonic Pathology http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=20577 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Stent Grafts Top "Gold Standard" Balloon Angioplasty for Dialysis Patients http://www.sirweb.org/news/newsPDF/Release_dialysis_NEJM_final.pdf Thu, 11 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: McMaster-led Study Finds Short-term Radiation Therapy Successful Against Breast Cancer http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=6608 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: JACR: Rad Exposure Today Presents Potential Harm to Future Generations http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=20476:jacr-rad-exposure-today-presents-potential-harm-to-future-generations Thu, 11 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: ACR Statement on FDA Radiation Reduction Program http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/ACRNewsCenter/ACRStatementonFDARadiationReductionProgram.aspx Thu, 11 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: For Some Breast Cancer Patients, Shorter Radiation Works Well https://www.caremark.com/wps/portal/HEALTH_RESOURCES?article=healthday/710518 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: FDA May Require Safer CT Scans to Prevent Unnecessary Radiation http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-02-09-fda-radiation-scans_N.htm Wed, 10 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Computers Do Better Than Humans at Measuring Some Radiology Images http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/kneesegment.htm Wed, 10 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Neuroimaging Study May Pave Way for Effective Alzheimer's Treatments http://news.ucsf.edu/releases/neuroimaging-study-may-pave-way-for-effective-alzheimers-treatments/ Wed, 10 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationSafety/RadiationDoseReduction/ucm199904.htm Wed, 10 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: F.D.A. to Increase Oversight of Medical Radiation http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/health/policy/10radiation.html Wed, 10 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Mesothelioma Chemotherapy Improved with PET and CT Scan Analysis http://www.asbestos.com/news/2010/02/09/mesothelioma-chemotherapy-improved-with-pet-and-ct-scan-analysis/ Wed, 10 Feb 2010 What's New: FDA: Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationSafety/RadiationDoseReduction/ucm199904.htm Tue, 09 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Racial Disparities Persist In Diagnosis Of Advanced Breast, Colon Cancer http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/178547.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Breathing Easier With 4-D Imaging http://imaging-radiation-oncology.advanceweb.com/editorial/content/editorial.aspx?cc=214794 Tue, 09 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Researchers Tackle Needless Child CT Scans http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Researchers+tackle+needless+child+scans/2538669/story.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: February Issue of JACR Features Significant Articles Regarding Radiation Safety http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/ACRNewsCenter/February2010JACR.aspx Mon, 08 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Study Shows How Medicare Rewards MDs for Overuse http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6170O520100208 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Radiation Dose Reduction With Chest Computed Tomography Using Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction Technique: Initial Experience http://journals.lww.com/jcat/Abstract/2010/01000/Radiation_Dose_Reduction_With_Chest_Computed.8.aspx Mon, 08 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: CT Colonography: Performance and Program Outcome Measures in an Older Screening Population 03/01/11 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Rising Obesity Rate Creates Unique Imaging Challenges http://www.rsna.org/Publications/rsnanews/February-2010/Obesity_feature.cfm Fri, 05 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Patients Sometimes Equate "Virtual" with "No Discomfort" in CTC http://www.rsna.org/Publications/rsnanews/February-2010/CTC_feature.cfm Fri, 05 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Radiology, Family Medicine Urged to Strengthen Ties http://www.rsna.org/Publications/rsnanews/February-2010/Ties_feature.cfm Fri, 05 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Radiation Dose Reduction in CT Coronary Angiography http://www.metapress.com/content/t3x0318264508122/ Thu, 04 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Loyola Employs Extensive Safeguards to Ensure Patient Safety http://www.loyolamedicine.org/News/News_Releases/news_release_detail.cfm?var_news_release_id=973441116 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: SNM's Clinical Trials Network Focuses on New FDA Regulations for PET Imaging http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=9456&RPID=922 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: ASTRO Commits to Six-Point Patient Protection Plan http://www.astro.org/PressRoom/NewsReleases/2010NewsReleases/documents/RadiationSafetyPR.pdf Thu, 04 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: IMRT Radiation Therapy One of the Most Potent Weapons Against Cancer http://www.loyolamedicine.org/News/News_Releases/news_release_detail.cfm?var_news_release_id=973441116 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: JACR: Videoconferencing Proves Effective for Practice-Based Learning http://www.cmio.net/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=20453&division=cmio Wed, 03 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: NIH to Begin Incorporating Radiation Doses in EMRs http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/11545/ Wed, 03 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: CMS Imaging Accreditation Decision Allows Continued Self-Referral http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/display/article/113619/1516464?verify=0 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Study: Smartphones, PDAs Just as Good as 'Secondary' Monitors for Reading Images http://www.fiercemobilehealthcare.com/story/study-handhelds-just-good-secondary-monitors-reading-images/2010-02-02 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: JNM: Essential Elements Missing from Most PET Reports http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=20424 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: The Impact of New Methods of Imaging on Radiation Dosage Delivered to Patients http://journals.lww.com/co-urology/Abstract/2010/03000/The_impact_of_new_methods_of_imaging_on_radiation.12.aspx Tue, 02 Feb 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Breast Care Task Force Recommendations Come Under Scutiny http://www.rt-image.com/New_and_Improved_Breast_care_task_force_recommendations_come_under_scrutiny/content=8904J05E48BE56944076967644A8B0441 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Child-Specific Doses for Pediatric PET Patients http://interactive.snm.org/index.cfm?PageID=9444&RPID=627 Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Letters to the Editor: Avoiding Errors in Radiation Therapy http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/opinion/l31radiation.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Quality Awareness: Patients Relying on Medical Scans from Private Firms http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jan/31/patients-relying-on-medical-scans-from-private/?partner=yahoo_feeds Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: Epigenetics Could Help Researchers Determine Any Risks Associated With Low-Dose Radiation http://www.physorg.com/news184224304.html Mon, 01 Feb 2010 What's New: NIH Will Start Keeping Track of Patients' Radiation Exposure http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-01-radiation01_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: NIH Will Start Keeping Track of Patients' Radiation Exposure http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-02-01-radiation01_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip Mon, 01 Feb 2010 Patient Safety: ACR to Co-Sponsor CT Dose Summit on Scan Parameter Optimization http://www.acr.org/SecondaryMainMenuCategories/NewsPublications/FeaturedCategories/CurrentACRNews/AAPMCTDoseSummit.aspx Fri, 29 Jan 2010 What's New: Promising New Neuroimaging Techniques for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease http://www.iospress.com/ Fri, 29 Jan 2010 What's New: Hospital Scanner Could Curb Nuclear Waste Threat http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5397 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Study Investigates Clear Dose Guidelines in PET Exams on Children http://www.healthtechwire.com/The-Industry-s-News-unb.146+M51252fe6522.0.html Fri, 29 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Breakthrough Heart Scanner Will Allow Earlier Diagnosis http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/PressReleases/magnetometer.htm Fri, 29 Jan 2010 Quality Awareness: Doctors Cut Back Hours when Risk of Malpractice Suit Rises, Study Shows http://news.byu.edu/archive10-jan-malpractice.aspx Fri, 29 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Scanner Helps Doctors Pinpoint Prostate Cancer http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60Q6M520100127 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 Quality Awareness: Multi-tasking, Quality and Pay for Performance http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123261868/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 Quality Awareness: They Check the Medical Equipment, but Who Is Checking Up on Them? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27sideradiation.html?scp=2&sq=Rebelo&st=cse Wed, 27 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Simple, Educational Intervention Reduces CT Scans And Patient Radiation Exposure http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/176850.php Wed, 27 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Case Studies: When Medical Radiation Goes Awry http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27RADIATIONSIDEBAR.html Wed, 27 Jan 2010 Quality Awareness: Minor Head Injury: CT-based Strategies for Management—A Cost-effectiveness Analysis http://radiology.rsna.org/content/254/2/532.abstract Wed, 27 Jan 2010 Quality Awareness: CT Colonography: Performance and Program Outcome Measures in an Older Screening Population http://radiology.rsna.org/content/254/2/493.abstract Wed, 27 Jan 2010 Quality Awareness: Communication Key in Avoiding Malpractice Minefields http://www.rsna.org/Publications/rsnanews/January-2010/Malpractice-_feature.cfm Wed, 27 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: While Technology Surges, Radiation Safeguards Lag http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/27radiation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Wed, 27 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Patient Safety: Conversation to Curriculum http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/health/26error.html?ref=health Tue, 26 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Non-contrast MRI Opens Up Test to More Patients http://www.kens5.com/news/Non-contrast-MRI-opens-up-test-to-more-patients-81539117.html Tue, 26 Jan 2010 Double Read: Computers Do Better Than Humans at Measuring Some Radiology Images http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/kneesegment.htm Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Mayo Clinic and IBM Advance Early Detection of Brain Aneurysms http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2010-rst/5600.html Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Quality Awareness: Process Improvement: What Is It, Why Is It Important, and How Is It Done? http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/194/2/461 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Quality Awareness: Process Improvement: What Is It, Why Is It Important, and How Is It Done? http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/194/2/461 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: ACR Statement on Airport Full-body Scanners and Radiation http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/ACRNewsCenter/StatementonAirportFullbodyScanners.aspx Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Digital Mammography Delivers Significantly Less Radiation than Conventional Mammography http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=442 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Adverse Reactions from Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents Used During MRI Rarely Occur, Study Suggests http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=445 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Large Medical Center Reduces CT Scans and Patient Radiation Exposure Through a Simple, Educational Intervention http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=448 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 In the News: When Radiation Treatment Turns Deadly http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/when-radiation-treatment-turns-deadly/?ref=health Sun, 24 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html Sun, 24 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Coronary Plaque Characteristics on CT Angiography Predict Post-Catheterization Injury http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/HealthcareNews/CoronaryPlaqueCharacteristics.aspx Fri, 22 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Pre-op Mammogram Reduces The Need for Mastectomy in Women With DCIS http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/176540.php Fri, 22 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Smokers With Cancer Could Quit and Double Survival http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100122/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_lung_cancer_survival Fri, 22 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Society of Interventional Radiology Supports Treatment for Painful Spine Fractures: Patient Selection Key http://www.sirweb.org/news/newsPDF/Release_vertebro_final.pdf Wed, 20 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Contrast-Enhanced Harmonic Ultrasonography for the Assessment of Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness http://www.urotoday.com/61/browse_categories/prostate_cancer/contrastenhanced_harmonic_ultrasonography_for_the_assessment_of_prostate_cancer_aggressiveness_a_preliminary_study__abstract01202010.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Circulatory Effects Seen with A-Bomb Radiation http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Atherosclerosis/17977 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Popular Handheld Devices Show Promise in the Field of Emergency Radiology http://www.healthcanal.com/public-health-safety/5117.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Image Gently: Providing Practical Educational Tools and Advocacy to Accelerate Radiation Protection for Children Worldwide http://www.semultrasoundctmri.com/article/PIIS0887217109000870/abstract?rss=yes Tue, 19 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Percutaneous Transgastric CT-Guided Biopsy of the Pancreas Using Large Needles http://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/15/5972.asp Mon, 18 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Cognitively Impaired Elderly Women Get Unneeded Screening Mammography, Study Finds http://news.ucsf.edu/releases/cognitively-impaired-elderly-women-get-unneeded-screening-mammography-study/ Mon, 18 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Brain Imaging May Help Diagnose Autism http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-08-2010/0005161248&EDATE= Thu, 14 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Game-changing Nanodiamond Discovery for MRI http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/01/mri.html Thu, 14 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Rapid Treatment for Acute Deep Vein Thrombosis Can Save Lives, Reduce Hospital Stays http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/rapid-treatment-for-acute-deep-vein-thrombosis-can-save-lives-reduce-hospital-stays-80786362.html Wed, 13 Jan 2010 Quality Awareness: Doctors Work to Balance Business of Medicine With Patient Care http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/content/PHY-244705/Doctors-Work-to-Balance-Business-of-Medicine-with-Patient-Care Wed, 13 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: New Studies Try to Quantify Cancer Risk from CT Scans http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2010/01/11/prsb0111.htm Wed, 13 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Radiofrequency Ablation Safe and Effective for Reducing Pain from Bone Metastases http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/ACRNewsCenter/RFAReducesPainSafely.aspx Wed, 13 Jan 2010 Double Read: Radiologists Respond to Report on Resident Issues http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Modern+Medicine+Now/Radiologists-Respond-to-Report-on-Resident-Issues/ArticleNewsFeed/Article/detail/651204?contextCategoryId=40130 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Cancer Risks Debated for Type of X-Ray Scan http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/health/09scanner.html?emc=eta1 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Preliminary Results for Characterization of Pelvic Lymph Nodes in Patients With Prostate Cancer by Diffusion-Weighted MR-Imaging http://www.urotoday.com/61/browse_categories/prostate_cancer/preliminary_results_for_characterization_of_pelvic_lymph_nodes_in_patients_with_prostate_cancer_by_diffusionweighted_mrimaging__abstract01012010.html Thu, 07 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Study: FDOPA Superior to FLT and FDG for PET Imaging Low-Grade Gliomas http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=portal&id=publication:10:article:20109:study-fdopa-superior-to-flt-and-fdg-for-pet-imaging-low-grade-gliomas&division=hiit Thu, 07 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: 18F-Choline PET/CT Physiological Distribution and Pitfalls in Image Interpretation: Experience in 80 Patients With Prostate Cancer http://www.urotoday.com/61/browse_categories/prostate_cancer/18fcholine_petct_physiological_distribution_and_pitfalls_in_image_interpretation_experience_in_80_patients_with_prostate_cancer__abstract01012010.html Thu, 07 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Resident Duty Hour Limits: Recommendations by the IOM and the Response From the Radiology Community http://www.jacr.org/article/S1546-1440(09)00392-5/abstract Thu, 07 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: New Brain Scan May Predict Alzheimer's http://www.webmd.com/alzheimers/news/20100106/new-brain-scan-may-predict-alzheimers Thu, 07 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Getting a CT Scan? Ask Your Doctor Why http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2010/01/01/getting_a_ct_scan_ask_your_doctor_why Tue, 05 Jan 2010 Patient Safety: Health Fear Over New Airport Scanners http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23397526-health-fear-over-new-airport-scanners.do Tue, 05 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Physiologic Factors Linked To Image Quality of Multidetector Computed Tomography Scans http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/174775.php Tue, 05 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: CT: The First-Line Imaging Choice Of Physicians For The Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/174774.php Tue, 05 Jan 2010 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Dual-Source Technology Extends CT Applications http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/display/article/113619/1498434?CID=rss&verify=0 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: Q&A: Look Closer at CT Scan Cancer Risks http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-12-21-radiation21_st_N.htm Wed, 23 Dec 2009 Quality Awareness: Patient Factors Mar Accuracy of Multi-Detector CT Scans http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/634301.html Wed, 23 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: ACR Statement on Recent Studies Regarding CT Scans and Increased Cancer Risk http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/ACRNewsCenter/StatementonRecentStudiesRegardingCTScans.aspx Mon, 21 Dec 2009 What's New: Perspectives on Quality: Michael A. Bruno http://pqi.arrs.org/documents/bruno.pdf Fri, 18 Dec 2009 Quality Awareness: ACR Statement on Recent Studies Regarding CT Scans and Increased Cancer Risk http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/ACRNewsCenter/StatementonRecentStudiesRegardingCTScans.aspx Fri, 18 Dec 2009 Quality Awareness: Holding Doctors Accountable for Medical Errors http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/health/17chen.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Fri, 18 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Tracking New Cancer-Killing Particles With MRI http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/174071.php Wed, 16 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: CT Scans and Health Care Reform http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/ct-scans-and-health-care-reform/ Wed, 16 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: The Impact of New Methods of Imaging on Radiation Dosage Delivered to Patients http://www.urotoday.com/52/browse_categories/stone_disease/the_impact_of_new_methods_of_imaging_on_radiation_dosage_delivered_to_patients__abstract12162009.html Wed, 16 Dec 2009 Quality Awareness: Survey: Multimodality Imaging May Benefit From Interdisciplinary Training in Europe http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=19925:survey-multimodality-imaging-may-benefit-from-interdisciplinary-training-in-europe Wed, 16 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: Variable Doses of Radiation Raise Safety Concerns for CT Procedures http://news.ucsf.edu/releases/variable-doses-of-radiation-raise-safety-concerns-for-ct-procedures/ Wed, 16 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Alzheimer's Protein May be Early Risk Factor http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5BE05720091215 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: Scatter Radiation from Chest Radiographs: Is There a Risk to Infants in a Typical NICU? http://www.springerlink.com/content/q8692m2188118g02/ Tue, 15 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: Estimated Cumulative Radiation Dose from PET/CT in Children with Malignancies: a 5-Year Retrospective Review http://www.springerlink.com/content/91h1087654328359/ Tue, 15 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: Studies Quantify Radiation Doses, Cancer Risks From CT Scans http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/174006.php Tue, 15 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: Radiation From CT Scans May Raise Cancer Risk http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121436092&ft=1&f=1007 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: Radiation From CT Scans Linked to Cancers, Deaths http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-12-15-radiation15_st_N.htm?poe=HFMostPopular&loc=interstitialskip Tue, 15 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: FDA Makes Interim Recommendations to Address Concern of Excess Radiation Exposure during CT Perfusion Imaging http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm193190.htm Wed, 09 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: U.S. Probing More Cases of CT Radiation Overexposure http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B638O20091207 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 Quality Awareness: Poster Shows Computed Radiography Artifacts and Their Solutions http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/display/article/113619/1494411?CID=rss&verify=0 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Which Screening Tests Are Best? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/04/AR2009120403800.html?wprss=rss_health Wed, 09 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: iPhone/iPod Touch Program "Radiation Passport" Estimates Radiation/Cancer Risks http://www.faxts.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1462:iphoneipod-touch-program-radiation-passport-estimates-radiationcancer-risks-&catid=72:world-wide-web&Itemid=119 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: FDA Makes Interim Recommendations to Address Concern of Excess Radiation Exposure During CT Perfusion Imaging http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm193190.htm Tue, 08 Dec 2009 Double Read: CT Pathology: Is it real, or is it Photoshop? http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/display/article/113619/1493296?CID=rss Mon, 07 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: IR Urges Moratorium of Vertebral Compression Fracture Interventions http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/display/article/113619/1493273?CID=rss Mon, 07 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: Simulated Training for Ultrasound Procedures Improves Safety http://www.henryford.com/body.cfm?id=46335&action=detail&ref=1042 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 Quality Awareness: Imaging Forecast: Cloud Computing Takes RSNA by Storm http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/10907/ Mon, 07 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Atomic Scanning of Bone Problems Possible http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/12/02/Atomic-scanning-of-bone-problems-possible/UPI-84061259781167/ Fri, 04 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Molecular Imaging Effective for Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=19762 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: Radiation Reduction in Heart CT Scans Reported in Study http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiation-reduction-in-heart-ct-scans-reported-in-study-78236867.html Wed, 02 Dec 2009 Quality Awareness: RSNA: Practical Informatics for the Practicing Radiologist http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=portal&id=publication:44:article:19750:rsna-practical-informatics-for-the-practicing-radiologist&division=hiit Wed, 02 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: Patient Safety at Ten: Unmistakable Progress, Troubling Gaps http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/hlthaff.2009.0785v1 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: New Medical Imaging Technique - Dynamic MRI, Makes Possible the Identification of Pelvic Organ Prolapse in Women http://biomedme.com/general/new-medical-imaging-technique-dynamic-mri-makes-possible-the-identification-of-pelvic-organ-prolapse-in-women_3171.html Wed, 02 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: CT Imaging Taken Post Avastin May Predict Survival in Patients With Metastatic Colorectal Cancer http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091201161838.htm Wed, 02 Dec 2009 Quality Awareness: A Practice Quality Improvement Program for Radiologists http://spr.affiniscape.com/associations/5364/ig/index.cfm?page=518 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 Quality Awareness: Disclosing Harmful Mammography Errors to Patients1 http://radiology.rsna.org/content/253/2/443.abstract Tue, 01 Dec 2009 Quality Awareness: Partner Compensation — Piecing Together a Plan That Works for Your Group http://www.radiologytoday.net/archive/rt113009p18.shtml Tue, 01 Dec 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Automated Whole Breast Ultrasound Feasible for Cancer Screening http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=19727&division=hiit Tue, 01 Dec 2009 Patient Safety: CT Scan Patients May Get Unnecessary Imaging http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=633507 Tue, 01 Dec 2009 In the News: SPECIAL REPORT-Are Doctors What Ails U.S. Health Care? http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/idUSN0514384520091106 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 In the News: PET Imaging Response A Prognostic Factor After Thoracic Radiation Therapy For Lung Cancer http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091106145417.htm Mon, 09 Nov 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: How to Improve Your Breast Cancer Program: Standardized Reporting Using the new American College of Radiology Breast Imaging-Reporting and Data System http://www.ijri.org/article.asp?issn=0971-3026;year=2009;volume=19;issue=4;spage=266;epage=277;aulast=Ojeda-Fournier Thu, 29 Oct 2009 Double Read: FDA Issues Draft Guidances for CAD http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=19239&division=hiit# Mon, 26 Oct 2009 Quality Awareness: CT Scans Show Patients With Severe Cases of H1N1 Are at Risk for Developing Acute Pulmonary Emboli http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=428 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 Double Read: Computer-Aided Identification of the Pectoral Muscle in Digitized Mammograms http://www.springerlink.com/content/7778m43252756g6q/ Mon, 12 Oct 2009 Referring Physician Survey: GPs Hold the Key to Reduce CT Tests http://www.6minutes.com.au/articles/z1/view.asp?id=501153 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 In the News: New Recommendations Help Health Providers Prepare for Electronic Record Push http://www.bcm.edu/news/item.cfm?newsID=1534 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 In the News: Group Promotes Decision-Support Tech to Screen Imaging for Appropriateness http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/spotlight-group-promotes-decision-support-tech-screen-imaging-appropriateness/2009-09-27 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 In the News: Invasive Nature of Brain Cancer Examined by Medical College of Wisconsin Researchers http://www.mcw.edu/Releases/2009Releases/InvasiveBrainCancerStudied.htm Mon, 21 Sep 2009 Quality Awareness: Image Gently Course Qualifies as a PQI Project for the ABR Maintenance of Certification Program http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/ACRNewsCenter/ImageGentlyCoursePQI.aspx Mon, 21 Sep 2009 Reporting Timeliness: U.S. needs own supply of medical isotopes Thu, 10 Sep 2009 Quality Awareness: BMC: Over-Investigation, Poor Referrals Lead to Hospital Over-Imaging http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=18608 Fri, 04 Sep 2009 Double Read: MRI-Detected Suspicious Breast Lesions: Predictive Values of Kinetic Features Measured by Computer-Aided Evaluation http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/3/826 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 Quality Awareness: Perspectives on Quality: Raymond K. Tu http://pqi.arrs.org/documents/tu.pdf Tue, 11 Aug 2009 Patient Safety: Safe Use of Imaging Contrast Agents in Children http://www.jacr.org/article/PIIS1546144009001744/abstract?rss=yes Wed, 05 Aug 2009 Quality Awareness: Cancers Set to 'Explode' in Latino/a Populations, Expert Says http://news.illinois.edu/news/09/0728cancer.html Fri, 31 Jul 2009 Patient Safety: Low-Dose CT Method, Delivering 50% Less Radiation, Correctly Identifies Patients with Appendicitis http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/1/96 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Low-Risk Patients With Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: Negative 64-MDCT Coronary Angiography May Reduce Length of Stay and Hospital Charges http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/1/150 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 Quality Awareness: In Defense of Body CT http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/1/28 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 Patient Safety: Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology: New Patient Radiation Safety Guidelines http://www.sirweb.org/news/newsPDF/Release_JVIR_suppl.pdf Tue, 07 Jul 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis And Gadolinium-Based Contrast Agents http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/156029.php Wed, 01 Jul 2009 Patient Safety: Researchers Find a Way to Reduce Patient Radiation Dose During Pulmonary CT Angiography http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=410 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 Quality Awareness: Steele Responds to President's AMA Address: 'Success is Dependent on Working Together’ http://pqi.arrs.org/documents/steele_pqi.pdf Mon, 29 Jun 2009 Patient Safety: Radiation Dose Drastically Reduced During Whole Chest MDCT http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/1/150?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&author1=shuman&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT Fri, 26 Jun 2009 Patient Safety: Non-Invasive Brain Surgery: Successful Neurosurgery with Transcranial MR-guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622064711.htm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 Patient Safety: Non-Invasive Brain Surgery: Successful Neurosurgery With Transcranial MR-guided High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622064711.htm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 Quality Awareness: Best Ways to Provide Feedback to Radiologists on Mammography Performance Tue, 23 Jun 2009 Patient Safety: Improving Patient Safety: Effects of a Safety Program on Performance and Culture in a Department of Radiology http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/1/165 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 Patient Safety: Improving Patient Safety: Effects of a Safety Program on Performance and Culture in a Department of Radiology http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/193/1/165 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 Quality Awareness: American Medical Association Calls for Heightened Awareness of Male Breast Cancer http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526615,00.html Mon, 22 Jun 2009 Quality Awareness: Congress Members Tout Imaging Benefits to Obama http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=17762 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 Quality Awareness: Safety Issues in Radiology http://iweb.arrs.org/purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?withoutButtons=false&Product_code=WL0810_IC410 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 Quality Awareness: Quality Assessment and Improvement in Radiology http://iweb.arrs.org/purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?withoutButtons=false&Product_code=WL0810_IC210 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 Reporting Timeliness: JNM: List Mode Comparable to Video Method for Cardiac PET/CT Gating http://www.healthimaging.com/index.php?option=com_articles&view=article&id=17548:jnm-list-mode-comparable-to-video-method-for-cardiac-petct-gating Wed, 27 May 2009 Patient Safety: International Atomic Energy Agency http://www.iaea.org/NewsCenter/Focus/RadiationProtection/index.html Mon, 04 May 2009 Patient Safety: Safety Issues In Fetal Ultrasound http://www.fetalultrasoundsafety.net/ Mon, 04 May 2009 Quality Awareness: Integrating PACS with Digital Mammography was Focus of Presentation at NCBC Meeting http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Integrating-PACS-with-Digital-bw-15116704.html?.v=1 Mon, 04 May 2009 Patient Safety: Perspectives on Quality -- Aaron Sodickson, MD, PHD http://pqi.arrs.org/documents/sodickson.pdf Fri, 24 Apr 2009 Patient Safety: CT Scans Increase Cancer Risk Estimates in Multiply-Imaged Emergency Department Patients http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=363 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Patient Safety: Majority of Ordering Physicians Lack Knowledge of Radiation Exposure Risks from CT http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=390 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: New MR Technique May Help Save Women from Unnecessary Breast Biopsies http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=381 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: New MR Sequence Helps Radiologists More Accurately Evaluate Abnormalities of the Uterus and Ovaries http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=384 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Second Look Ultrasound: Effective MRI Correlate for Identifying Incidental Breast Lesions Not Seen on Mammography and First Look Ultrasound http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=383 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Double Read: Early-Stage Lung Cancer Identified Using Computer-Aided System Dramatically Increases One's Chance for Survival http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=371 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: New Study Argues for CT Colonography as Primary Colon Cancer Screening Test http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=372 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Quality Awareness: Teleradiology Offers CT Colonography to Rural Areas http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=373 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Quality Awareness: Popular Gaming System May Offer Radiologists an Alternative Way to View Patient Images http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=369 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Cardiac CT Offers a Better, Cost Effective Approach to Diagnose Low-Risk Chest Pain Patients in the ER Cardiac CT Offers a Better, Cost Effective Approach to Diagnose Low-Risk Chest Pain Patients in the ER Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Quality Awareness: Baroque Classical Music in the Reading Room May Improve Mood and Productivity http://www.arrs.org/Pressroom/info.cfm?prID=366 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 Quality Awareness: Applying Business Strategies and Metrics to Your Radiology Practice http://iweb.arrs.org/purchase/ProductDetail.aspx?withoutButtons=false&Product_code=BS06 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 Clinical Practice Guidelines: New Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy Method Allows Improved Diagnosis of Endometrial Disease http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept353744/files/525293.html Tue, 14 Apr 2009 Patient Safety: Radiation Risks and Pediatric Computed Tomography (CT): A Guide for Health Care Providers http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/causes/radiation-risks-pediatric-ct Mon, 13 Apr 2009 Patient Safety: ACR http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/ACRNewsCenter/PQRIMeasure145.aspx Tue, 07 Apr 2009 Patient Safety: American College of Radiology http://www.acr.org/HomePageCategories/News/ACRNewsCenter/PQRIMeasure145.aspx Tue, 07 Apr 2009 Patient Safety: National Quality Forum http://www.qualityforum.org/pdf/reports/safe_practices/free3%209SafePractices2009Update.pdf Wed, 11 Mar 2009 Quality Awareness: Digital Mammography Improving Breast Cancer Exams http://cbs11tv.com/health/mammogram.digital.mammography.2.950726.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 Quality Awareness: The Link Between IT and Medicine http://explore.georgetown.edu/documents/39825/ Thu, 05 Mar 2009 Quality Awareness: Investment in Quality Improvement: How to Maximize the Return http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122193092/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 Quality Awareness: Imaging Measures http://www.imagingmeasures.com/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 In the News: New Breast Imaging Technology Targets Hard-to-Detect Cancers http://www.rsna.org/Media/rsna/RSNA08_newsrelease_target.cfm?id=391 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 Quality Awareness: Expanded Use of Imaging Technology and the Challenge of Measuring Value http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/6/1467 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 In the News: $8.6 Million Grant Will Test New Strategies to Eliminate Cancer Disparities http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/12776.html Mon, 20 Oct 2008 In the News: Results of the National CT Colonography Trial: Questions and Answers http://www.acrin.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=gh7gu1TRBEk%3d&tabid=36&mid=384 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 Quality Awareness: Accuracy of Chest Radiograph Interpretation by Emergency Physicians http://www.springerlink.com/content/lt682321282440xg/ Thu, 11 Sep 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnostic Value of High-Resolution CT in the Evaluation of Chronic Infiltrative Lung Disease in Children http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/191/3/914 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 Patient Safety: Pediatric Body MDCT: A 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The Growing Use of CT Scans Fuels Medical Concerns About Radiation Exposure http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011401487.html?referrer=emailarticle Fri, 15 Aug 2008 Patient Safety: The Doctor Says Get a CT Scan. Should You? http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/2007/11/28/the-doctor-says-get-a-ct-scan-should-you.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 Patient Safety: ALARA: Is There a Cause for Alarm? Reducing Radiation Risks From Computed Tomography Scanning in Children http://www.pedrad.org/associations/5364/files/00008480-200806000-00003.pdf Fri, 15 Aug 2008 Quality Awareness: Educating Health Professionals to Improve Quality of Care http://www.iom.edu/Object.File/Master/10/479/Quality.pdf Mon, 11 Aug 2008 Quality Awareness: Supporting Quality Improvement at the Practice Site: Lessons from the Field http://www.chcs.org/publications3960/publications_show.htm?doc_id=670157 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 Quality Awareness: Mayo Clinic Quality Improvement Reading List http://www.radiologyquality.com/share_docs/MayoQualityReadingList.doc Mon, 11 Aug 2008 Quality Awareness: Practice Quality Improvement: How Do You Assess How You're Doing? http://www.rsna.org/Education/MOC/practice_quality_improvement.cfm Mon, 11 Aug 2008 Quality Awareness: Practice Quality Improvement—Not Just Another Hoop http://www.theabr.org/DR_MOC_PQI_letter.htm Mon, 11 Aug 2008 In the News: Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Patients with Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer—A New Standard? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/03022838 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 Reporting Timeliness: Do Clinicians Read Our Reports? Integrating the Radiology Information System With the Electronic Patient Record: Experiences from the First 2 Years http://www.springerlink.com/content/d5477337u3983467/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 Reporting Timeliness: Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Time to Follow-Up after an Abnormal Mammogram http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/jwh.2007.0402 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Radiotherapy for Small-Cell Lung Cancer—Where Are We Heading? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%235111%239999%23999999999%2399999%23FLA%23&_cdi=5111&_pubType=J&view=c&_auth=y&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=44fc99303fa26c9b28e483ea98c702fc Tue, 05 Aug 2008 Patient Safety: The New Metric System http://bit.ly/az4HBO Thu, 31 Jul 2008 Reporting Timeliness: False-Positive Results in Cancer Epidemiology: A Plea for Epistemological Modesty http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/djn191 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 In the News: Automated MRI Technique Assists in Earlier Alzheimer's Diagnosis http://www.rsna.org/media/pressreleases/pr_target.cfm?ID=362 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 In the News: Mastectomies on the Rise and MRI Use May Explain Part of the Trend, Say Mayo Researchers http://www.mayoclinic.org/news2008-rst/4801.html Mon, 02 Jun 2008 Double Read: MRI Changes Breast Cancer Treatment Choice; Increases Time to Treatment http://www.arrs.org/pressroom/info.cfm?prID=278 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 Double Read: MRI 'Best' for Looking at Breast Cancer and More http://www.arrs.org/pressroom/info.cfm?prID=287 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines: 3T MRI Plays Significant Role in Detecting Prostate Cancer, Study Says http://www.arrs.org/pressroom/info.cfm?prID=288 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines: American Cancer Society Guidelines for the Early Detection of Cancer http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_2_3X_ACS_Cancer_Detection_Guidelines_36.asp#coloncancer Thu, 06 Mar 2008 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Medical Physicists Improve Vision for Radiation Therapy http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0108-targeting_cancer_in_3d.htm Wed, 20 Feb 2008 Patient Safety: IBM and University Researchers to Develop Research Tools to Improve Cancer Patient Outcomes http://www.cinj.org/pdffiles/news/IBM_CINJ_FINAL_WEB.pdf Wed, 13 Feb 2008 Patient Safety: Image Gently: A New Campaign Seeks to Reduce Radiation Dosage in Children http://www.rt-image.com/Image_Gently_A_new_campaign_seeks_to_reduce_radiation_dosage_in_children/content=8004J05C4856A084407698764460A0441 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 Patient Safety: New 3-D Real-time Heart 'Mapping' Technology Improves Precision And Patient Safety http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071208172537.htm Tue, 11 Dec 2007 Clinical Practice Guidelines: Radiology Quality Society http://radiologyquality.com/ Mon, 10 Dec 2007 Reporting Timeliness: This important benchmarking study by the AHRA Statistical Resource Committee provides reliable statistics on the length of time it takes for a radiolo http://www.ahraonline.org/Resources/Products/BD-SurveySuccessStories.asp Patient Safety: Joint Commission Patient Safety Goals FAQs http://www.jointcommission.org/NR/rdonlyres/9ECF1ED6-E04E-41DE-B7BC-174590CEDF33/0/07_NPSG_FAQs_8.pdf Reporting Timeliness: The path of least resistance: is there a better route? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=14603594&ordinalpos=20&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Patient Safety: Safety and efficacy of fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for acoustic neuromas. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17622486&ordinalpos=26&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Clinical Practice Guidelines: The Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias: Understanding Key Radiological Features http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20797469 Clinical Practice Guidelines: The role of coronary CT angiography (CTA) for patients presenting with acute chest pain. Defining problem-specific, evidence-based indications of a no http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17503217&ordinalpos=29&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Clinical Practice Guidelines: Addressing Overutilization in Medical Imaging http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20736333 Referring Physician Survey: Patient Access to Radiology Reports: What Do Physicians Think? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20362944 Referring Physician Survey: Nonadherence to Recommendations for Further Testing After Outpatient CT and MRI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20569765 Referring Physician Survey: Malpractice Issues in Radiology: Medicare Compliance Versus Standard of Care Conformance - Real or Imaginary Conflict? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20489096 Referring Physician Survey: The National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR): Design and Analysis Plan. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17942807&ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Referring Physician Survey: Ultrathin Esophagoscopy in Screening for Barrett's Esophagus at a Veterans Administration Hospital: Easy Access Does Not Lead to Referrals. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17764497&ordinalpos=4&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Double Read: Mammographic Features of Breast Cancers at Single Reading With CAD and at Double Reading in a Large Multicenter Prospective Trial of CAD: CADET II http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20656831 Double Read: CT Colonography Computer-Aided Polyp Detection: Effect on Radiologist Observers of Polyp Identification by CAD on Both the Supine and Prone Scans http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20542452 Double Read: Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor 2-Specific Microbubbles for Molecular Ultrasound Detection of Prostate Cancer in a Rat Model http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20733504 Double Read: The Pathological and Radiological Features of Screen-Detected Breast Cancers Diagnosed following Arbitration of Discordant Double Reading Opinions. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=16223614&ordinalpos=17&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Reporting Timeliness: Identification of root causes for emergency diagnostic imaging delays at three Canadian hospitals. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=16863871&ordinalpos=8&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Reporting Timeliness: [Impact of a PACS/RIS-integrated speech recognition system on radiology reporting time and report availability] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=16607588&ordinalpos=9&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Reporting Timeliness: Radiologist Report Turnaround Time: Impact of Pay-for-Performance Measures http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20729450 Reporting Timeliness: Correlation Among On-call Resident Study Volume, Discrepancy Rate, and Turnaround Time http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20692621 Reporting Timeliness: Perspectives on speech recognition technology. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=15794378&ordinalpos=14&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Reporting Timeliness: [Information assisted surgery as a transdisciplinary surgical procedure] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=15770563&ordinalpos=16&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Reporting Timeliness: Voice Recognition Software: Effect on Radiology Report Turnaround Time at an Academic Medical Center http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20566816 Reporting Timeliness: Emergency radiology coverage: technical and clinical feasibility of an international teleradiology model. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=15290497&ordinalpos=18&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum Patient Safety: AHRQ's Patient Safety e-Newsletter http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/ptsflist.htm Clinical Practice Guidelines: Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiology: Standards and Accreditation http://www.ranzcr.edu.au/qualityprograms/accreditation/index.cfm Referring Physician Survey: Tools for Increasing Physician Referrals http://www.aao.org/aaoesite/bulletins/executive_0204.cfm Referring Physician Survey: University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina http://www.uhseast.com/body.cfm?id=708&action=detail&surveyid=2