It has long been known that NPPs increase utilization of radiology services, but new data indicate that they also  are increasingly taking on more imaging interpretation responsibilities.

And the improved scan times did not come at the expense of image quality but, instead, offered improved signal-to-noise ratio, according to a new study in Skeletal Radiology.

Automated phone trees are a cost-effective means of reducing unnecessary interruptions and can be implemented “in an easily accessible manner,” according to experts at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

The collaboration, announced at ASE 2023, was launched in the name of patient access. 

Did your facility make the cut? For its 2023-2024 list, U.S. News and World Report evaluated data from 119 hospitals and surveyed thousands of pediatric specialists.

Following the intervention, learners demonstrated improved and sustained knowledge about high-value image ordering, experts wrote in JACR. 

The agency is proposing a new electronic clinical quality measure for inpatients tied to "excessive radiation dose or inadequate image quality." 

A law firm hired to investigate the situation reviewed more than 300,000 pages of documents and conducted more than 250 hours of interviews.