Patient safety and image transfer between referring hospitals and neuroscience centres: could we do better?

Matthew Crocker; William B. Cato-Addison; Suresh Pushpananthan; Timothy L. Jones; Joanna Anderson; Anthony Bell

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Patient safety and image transfer between referring hospitals and neuroscience centres: could we do better?

October 27, 2010

Crocker M, Cato-Addison WB, Pushpananthan S, et al. Br J Neurosurg. 2010;24(4):391-5.

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This British study contends that the inability to reliably transmit CT and MRI images between hospitals for patients with possible neurosurgical emergencies is a potential source of diagnostic error and patient harm.

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