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AAP Grand Rounds 4:36-37 (2000)
© 2000 American Academy of Pediatrics

COMPUTERS/OTHER TECHNOLOGY

Computerized Picture Archival and Communication Systems: Is A Digital Picture Worth a Thousand Steps?

Source: Redfern RO, Kundel HL, Polansky M, et al. A picture archival and communication system shortens delays in obtaining radiographic information in a medical intensive care unit. Crit Care Med. 2000;28:1006–1013.

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Redfern and her coworkers studied the consequences of the availability of a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in a medical intensive care unit (MICU). They studied 118 patients admitted to the MICU over 9 distinct data collection periods from February 1993 to October 1994 who had non-routine bedside chest radiographs. Multivariate analysis evaluated effects of unit occupancy, patient acuity, the time of day, the examination type, and the availability of the PACS workstation on the time of first viewing of radiographs by MICU physicians. In a multivariate analysis, patient acuity, unit occupancy, aggregate level of severity of illness, whether . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Neel B. Ackerman, Jr., MD
Neonatal Division, Magella Healthcare, Dallas, TX

 





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