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Strategies To Reduce Errors in Radiology

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To err may indeed be human; nevertheless, society requires faultless medical professionals. For radiologists, being held to such standards is particularly challenging due to the rapidly advancing science of image acquisition. Errors in medicine have become headline news in recent years. Within radiology, the important progress in demonstrating disease has left error analysis a subject that is often mostly ignored.

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  1. Department of Health Science, Chair of Radiology, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

    Luca Brunese

  2. Department of Internal and Experimental Medicine “ Magrassi-Lanzara”, Section of Radiology, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy

    Alfonso Reginelli

  3. Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Radiotherapy, Neuroradiology Unit, “Federico II” University, Naples, Italy

    Ferdinando Caranci

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  1. Department of Diagnostic Radiological Imaging, “A. Cardarelli” Hospital, Naples, Italy

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Brunese, L., Reginelli, A., Caranci, F. (2012). Strategies To Reduce Errors in Radiology. In: Romano, L., Pinto, A. (eds) Errors in Radiology. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2339-0_28

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