Patient safety and image transfer between referring hospitals and neuroscience centres: could we do better?
Crocker M, Cato-Addison WB, Pushpananthan S, et al. Patient safety and image transfer between referring hospitals and neuroscience centres: could we do better? Br J Neurosurg. 2010;24(4):391-5. doi:10.3109/02688697.2010.508847.
This British study contends that the inability to reliably transmit CT and MRI images between hospitals for patients with possible neurosurgical emergencies is a potential source of diagnostic error and patient harm.