A multiobserver study of the effects of including point-of-care patient photographs with portable radiography: a means to detect wrong-patient errors.

Srini Tridandapani; Senthil Ramamurthy; James Provenzale; Nancy A. Obuchowski; Michael G. Evanoff; Pamela Bhatti

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A multiobserver study of the effects of including point-of-care patient photographs with portable radiography: a means to detect wrong-patient errors.

October 8, 2014

Tridandapani S, Ramamurthy S, Provenzale J, et al. Acad Radiol. 2014;21(8):1038-47.

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Similar to a prior smaller study, this study found the inclusion of point-of-care facial photographs obtained with portable chest radiographs increased the identification of wrong-patient errors among a group of 90 academic radiologists.

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