Articles with tag: «primary care»
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2018 № 2 «Cross-reporting» as a way for sub-speciality teleradiology
There is an original telemedicinebased approach for a subspeciality reporting of a radiology examinations at primary level facilities. This approach allows to increase quality of «neuroradiology» reporting at children. The level of discrepancies decreased from 42,0% to 20,0%.
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2018 № 4 Expert Telemedicine Consultations in Radiology Service of Moscow
In 2017 Moscow Research and Practical Center of Medical Radiology conducted 2678 expert telemedicine consultations (i.e., TMC) following the requests from the radiology departments in Moscow municipal hospitals. A system-integrated base for distance consultations is called Unified Radiological Information Service (i.e., URIS). Expert TMCs were performed based on their modality, i.e. 52% (1386 cases) for MR imaging, 47% (1257 cases) for CT, 1% (35 cases) for X-ray imaging. The vast majority (i.e., 96.7% cases) of all applications were received from municipal outpatient clinics, providing healthcare assistance to the adult population. 3.2% of cases of expert TMC were conducted on an urgent basis. For the first time we defined the average demand for expert TMC results of radiology studies to be equal to 4,8 teleconsultations for 1,000 CTs, 17,42 – for 1 CT scanner, 8,9 – for 1,000 MRI, 26,98 – for 1 MRI scanner