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.

June 12, 2013

Tridandapani S, Ramamurthy S, Galgano SJ, et al. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2013;200(4).

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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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