Operational rounds: a practical administrative process to improve safety and clinical services in radiology.

Lane F. Donnelly; Julie M. Dickerson; Todd W. Lehkamp; Kevin E. Gessner; Jay Moskovitz; Sally Hutchinson

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Operational rounds: a practical administrative process to improve safety and clinical services in radiology.

November 26, 2008

Donnelly LF, Dickerson JM, Lehkamp TW, et al. J Am Coll Radiol. 2008;5(11):1142-9.

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This article describes how one hospital's safety program developed a rounds process that engaged frontline radiology staff to uncover potential failures. Examples of improvements are also highlighted.

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