Radiological Society: Patient Matching - Why It Is Critical in Radiology
September 16, 2019
September 16, 2019
OAK BROOK, Illinois, Sept. 16 -- The Radiological Society of North America issued the following news:
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- Standardized data, burgeoning technology key to improving patient identification accuracy
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Three years ago -- in a worst-case scenario for any physician -- a surgeon at St. Vincent's Hospital in Worcester, MA, removed a healthy kidney from a patient after mistakenly reading the CT scan of another patient. Both patients had the same . . .
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- Standardized data, burgeoning technology key to improving patient identification accuracy
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Three years ago -- in a worst-case scenario for any physician -- a surgeon at St. Vincent's Hospital in Worcester, MA, removed a healthy kidney from a patient after mistakenly reading the CT scan of another patient. Both patients had the same . . .