Increasing rate of detection of wrong-patient radiographs: use of photographs obtained at time of radiography.

Srini Tridandapani; Senthil Ramamurthy; Samuel J Galgano; James M Provenzale

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Increasing rate of detection of wrong-patient radiographs: use of photographs obtained at time of radiography.

March 4, 2015

Tridandapani S, Ramamurthy S, Galgano SJ, et al. Am J Roentgenol. 2013;200(4):w345-w352.

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Automatically photographing patients at the time of portable chest radiography increased the detection of mislabeled radiograph errors without significantly affecting film interpretation time.

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