Clinicians get the critical imaging results late!!
"Referring clinicians failed to electronically acknowledge over one-third of abnormal imaging results in an outpatient setting, even when a computerized test result notification system designed to alert referring physicians was used, according to a paper from Texas. Providers were unaware of critical imaging results in 4% of cases as long as four weeks after reporting."
Source-Diagnostic Imaging
Clinicians get the critical imaging results late!!
Reviewed by Sumer Sethi
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
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