CMR Clinical Practice Patterns Across Four U.S. Medical Centers from 2010-2014
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Background Accurate data on CMR practice patterns is a prerequisite for planning strategies to grow clinical volumes within existing CMR clinical services, increase the number of hospitals that offer these services, and improving reimbursement. Methods Data analysis was performed on a cloud-based system that is currently receiving de-identified searchable data from electronically-signed clinical reports with full DICOM datasets for 23,275 consecutive CMR exams performed at four geographically diverse U.S. medical
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