How radiology can improve communication with referring physicians HOW RADIOLOGY CAN IMPROVE COMMUNICATION WITH REFERRING PHYSICIANS
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A picture is worth a thousand words: needs assessment for multimedia radiology reports in a large tertiary care medical center.
RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Radiology reports are the major, and often only, means of communication between radiologists and their referring clinicians. The purposes of this study are to identify referring physicians' preferences about radiology reports and to quantify their perceived value of multimedia reports (with embedded images) compared with narrative text reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS W...
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