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From the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Medical Center; American Radiology Services, Baltimore; University of Maryland
School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD; and Department of Veterans Affairs, Technology Service, Silver Spring, MD.
Address reprint requests to Bruce L Reiner, MD, University of
Maryland/American Radiology Services, 21779 Cove Lane,
Leonardtown, MD 20650. E-mail: breiner@mail.ameritel.net.
Copyright 9 2000 by W.B. Saunders Company
0897-1889/00/1302-1018510.00/0
doi: 10.1053/jdim. 2000.6833
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RESULTS
MODALITY
WORKLIST
RADIOLOGY
INFORMATION
SYSTEM
HOSPITAL
INFORMATION
SYSTEM
CLINICAL
INFORMATION
SYSTEM
Without modality
worklist
(n = 634)
With modality
worklist
(n = 1,025)
With modality
worklist and
network
upgrade
(n - 1,040)
Overall
Failure
Rate
Human
Failure
Rate
Technical
Failure
Rate
7.6%
5.2%
2.4%
3.5%
0.7%
2.8%
2.0%
0.8%
1.2%
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laboration is required between the respective vendors to reduce these transmission errors to more
acceptable levels, in order to enhance productivity
in a filmless CT department.
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