Digital radiology in skeletal trauma: assessment of casualty officers' performance.
Radiographic images can now be produced without the requirement of film processing and development, and can be displayed rapidly on a computer monitor. We assessed junior doctors' performance in interpreting images from 25 patients being investigated for possible fracture and also compared the diagn...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 129 - 133 |
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| Formato: | clinical trial research Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar1998
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