Hospital department which is responsible for the administration and provision of x-ray diagnostic and therapeutic services.
Information systems, usually computer-assisted, designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling administrative activities associated with the provision and utilization of radiology services and facilities.
A specialty concerned with the use of x-ray and other forms of radiant energy in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
The electronic transmission of radiological images from one location to another for the purposes of interpretation and/or consultation. Users in different locations may simultaneously view images with greater access to secondary consultations and improved continuing education. (From American College of Radiology, ACR Standard for Teleradiology, 1994, p3)
The process of converting analog data such as continually measured voltage to discrete, digital form.
The construction or arrangement of a task so that it may be done with the greatest possible efficiency.
Computer-based systems for use in personnel management in a facility, e.g., distribution of caregivers with relation to patient needs.
A film base coated with an emulsion designed for use with x-rays.
Disposal, processing, controlling, recycling, and reusing the solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes of plants, animals, humans, and other organisms. It includes control within a closed ecological system to maintain a habitable environment.
Systems composed of a computer or computers, peripheral equipment, such as disks, printers, and terminals, and telecommunications capabilities.
Improvement in the quality of an x-ray image by use of an intensifying screen, tube, or filter and by optimum exposure techniques. Digital processing methods are often employed.
Subspecialty of radiology that combines organ system radiography, catheter techniques and sectional imaging.
Any visual display of structural or functional patterns of organs or tissues for diagnostic evaluation. It includes measuring physiologic and metabolic responses to physical and chemical stimuli, as well as ultramicroscopy.
Tomography using x-ray transmission and a computer algorithm to reconstruct the image.
The portion of an interactive computer program that issues messages to and receives commands from a user.
Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient.
Hospitals engaged in educational and research programs, as well as providing medical care to the patients.
Major administrative divisions of the hospital.
Hospitals maintained by a university for the teaching of medical students, postgraduate training programs, and clinical research.
Large hospitals with a resident medical staff which provides continuous care to maternity, surgical and medical patients.
The expenses incurred by a hospital in providing care. The hospital costs attributed to a particular patient care episode include the direct costs plus an appropriate proportion of the overhead for administration, personnel, building maintenance, equipment, etc. Hospital costs are one of the factors which determine HOSPITAL CHARGES (the price the hospital sets for its services).
Hospitals located in metropolitan areas.
Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.
Special hospitals which provide care for ill children.
Examination of any part of the body for diagnostic purposes by means of X-RAYS or GAMMA RAYS, recording the image on a sensitized surface (such as photographic film).
Personnel who provide nursing service to patients in a hospital.