Author Dr Conall J. Garvey Consultant Radiologist Royal Liverpool University Hospital Liverpool, UK [email protected] Healthcare in the UK is undergoing a major restructuring. New untested independent healthcare providers are appearing on the scene, especially in medical imaging, making it crucial...
READ MOREClinical audit is a continuous improvement process that seeks to improve patient care and outcomes through systematic review of care against explicit criteria and the implementation of change.A cyclical approach to comparison of practice against the standard with implementation of changes has led to the audit spiral concept, leading onwards and upwards...
READ MOREAuthor Dr Howard Galloway Chief Radiologist Aspetar Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital Sports City Doha, Qatar [email protected] The Quality Use of Diagnostic Imaging (QUDI) programme is an initiative administered by the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Radiologists...
READ MOREDeveloping a System for Better Healthcare Authors Kyung-Hyun Do (above) Dong-Gyu Na Tae-Hwan Lim Korean Institute for Accreditation of Medical Image (KIAMI) Asan Medical Centre University of Ulsan College of Medicine Seoul, Korea [email protected] Lack of Quality...
READ MORESlow Adoption and Political Decisions Curb Growth Author Dr Anthony Stevens Medical Options Ltd. London, UK [email protected] With any technology that has sat on the shelf for a long time, a rise in sales is often viewed with some skepticism. Is this a false dawn, a blip only to be followed by a downturn?...
READ MOREAuthor Prof.Alan Jackson Professor of Radiology Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering The Medical School Manchester, UK [email protected] The decline of candidates for academic training, the resultant The decline of candidates for academic training, the resultant lack of published...
READ MOREAuthor Thomas J. Kroencke Department of Radiology Humboldt University Medical School Campus Charité Mitte Berlin, Germany Interventional radiologists play as important a role in post-procedural processes as they do during pre-procedure evaluation and the intervention itself. Patients consider the...
READ MOREAuthor Margus Ulst Member of the Executive Board Tartu University Hospital Tartu, Estonia [email protected] One of three Baltic states, Estonia covers an area of 45,227km 2 , making it slightly bigger than Holland but with a population density ten times less. Estonia's population (1.34...
READ MOREAuthor Dr Pilvi Ilves Associate Professor/Docent of Radiology Department of Radiology Faculty of Medicine The University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia [email protected] The University of Tartu, founded in 1632 is a national university in Estonia uniting different branches of science.The Faculty...
READ MOREAuthor Mare Lintrop Department of Radiology Tartu University Hospital Tartu, Estonia [email protected] The majority of physicians working in Estonia are graduates from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tartu. Until the mid-1970s, it was necessary to complete a full six years of studies...
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