FULL TEXT ARTICLES SPECIFIC TO RADIOLOGY AND ISSUES OF PATIENT SAFETY & QUALITY ASSURANCE:
J Digit Imaging. 2009 Dec;22(6):641-7. Epub 2008 Aug 21.
Creation and usability testing of a web-based pre-scanning radiology patient safety and history questionnaire set.
Radiographics. 2009 Mar-Apr;29(2):315-29. Epub 2009 Jan 23.
Strategies for establishing a comprehensive quality and performance improvement program in a radiology department.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2009 Jul;193(1):165-71.
Improving patient safety: effects of a safety program on performance and culture in a department of radiology.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2010 May;194(5):1183-7.
Improving patient safety in radiology.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2011 Jan;196(1):W48-51.
Creating a comprehensive customer service program to help convey critical and acute results of radiology studies.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2011 Sep;197(3):684-8.
Patient safety event reporting in a large radiology department.
Insights Imaging. 2012 Feb;3(1):1-3.
ESR guidelines for the communication of urgent and unexpected findings.
Open Med Inform J. 2012;6:28-35.
Retrieval of radiology reports citing critical findings with disease-specific customization.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011;2011:1593-602. Epub 2011 Oct 22.
Automatic identification of critical follow-up recommendation sentences in radiology reports.
other general articles on Patient Safety include:
Getting Moving on Patient Safety — Harnessing Electronic Data for Safer Care
Temporal Trends in Rates of Patient Harm Resulting from Medical Care
Views of Practicing Physicians and the Public on Medical Errors
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/
Electronic Health Records and National Patient-Safety Goals
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/
Effect of Bar-Code Technology on the Safety of Medication Administration
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/
Making Patient Safety the Centerpiece of Medical Liability Reform by H.Clinton & B.Obama
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/
Patient Safety beyond the Hospital
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/
other articles without direct links to full text include:
Experience with a practice quality improvement system in a university radiology department.
Kouo T.
J Am Coll Radiol. 2012 Nov;9(11):814-9
Ikuta I, Sodickson A, Wasser EJ, Warden GI, Gerbaudo VH, Khorasani R.
Radiology. 2012 Aug;264(2):406-13
Appropriate use of radionuclide imaging.
Sager SJ, Hendel RC.
Cardiol Rev. 2012 Jan-Feb;20(1):33-7
