• Follow-up breast cancer imaging widely variable, U.S. study finds

    No consensus on surveillance imaging after treatment. Geography affects what post-treatment imaging women with low-risk breast cancer receive in the United States. A study that analysed follow-up imaging received by women with non-metastatic breast cancer found wide variation across the United States. Of concern was that many low-r1

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  • Breast Imaging

    Author Raghuraman Madanagopal Analyst Frost & Sullivan Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women, and the second leading cause of cancer death in women around the world, after lung cancer. The incidence of breast cancer in women increases dramatically with age, with most breast cancer cases reported in women over t1

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  • Perspectives on Error Disclosure in Radiology

    Interviewees Professor Stephen Brown  Assistant Professor of Radiology Boston Children’s Hospital Harvard Medical School Boston, US Professor Thomas Gallagher Department of Medicine Department of Bioethics & Humanities University of Washington Seattle, US “we see much bigger differences in error disclosur1

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  • Clinical Applications of Shearwave™ Elastography

    Author Dan Conley Correspondent Key Points Strain elastography vs. ShearWave™ elastography Non-invasive alternative to biopsy Measure tissue stiffness in kilopascals Appropriate for detection, characterisation, biopsy guidance, therapeutic monitoring Introduction 1

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  • The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist:A Multifunctional Hospital Risk Management Tool

    Author: Axel Fudickar Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein  Germany [email protected] Hospital risk management includes human factors and technical hazards as well as leadership, procedural, educational, financial and organisational issues. The World He1

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  • Provision of a Dedicated Radiology Service For Acute Hospital Care

    Author Dr. Daniel Boxer West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust Watford, UK   [email protected] Key Point   ·       Delivery of radiology for acute care within a dedicated unit may be beneficial for patient outcomes and lengths of stay. ·      

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  • Radiology in South Korea

    Author Prof. Kyung-Hyun Do Department of Radiology University of Ulsan College of Medicine Asan Medical Center, Seou l [email protected]  Healthcare in South Korea The Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs (MIHWFA) is responsible for the health of the population, and has a supervisory role in health insurance policy.1

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  • Interventional Radiology And Stroke Therapy

    Authors Dr . Leo Lawler   Department of Radiology Dr. Matt Crockett Department of Radiology Dr . Eoin Kavanagh Department of Radiology Prof. Sean Murphy  Stroke Physician Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin, Ireland “in the acute setting, deciding which patients should not proceed 1

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  • Peer Review in Radiology: The Canadian Approach

    Authors Prof. David A. Koff Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology, McMaster University, Radiologist-in-Chief, Diagnostic Imaging, Hamilton Health Sciences HealthManagement Editorial Board member [email protected] Dr. Nadine Koff  President and co-founder  Real Time Medical Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1

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  • Radiolopolis

    Interviewee Dr. Roland Talanow President, Radiolopolis Lincoln, CA, United States [email protected]   Interviewed by Claire Pillar Managing Editor   With so much information available on the Internet, the advantages of a one stop shop are clear. One such resource 1

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