Overview
- Uses a four-level classification detailing the strength of the evidence based on the Oxford-criteria.
- Chapters are written by radiologists and imagers in close collaboration with clinical physicians and surgeons to provide balanced and fair analysis of medical topics
- Key points and summarized answers to important clinical issues appear at the beginning of chapters
- Best imaging protocols are described to ensure imaging studies are well standardized and done with highest available quality
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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Musculoskeletal Imaging
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Cardiovascular and Chest Imaging
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Abdominal and Pelvic Imaging
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About this book
Evidence-Based Imaging is a user-friendly guide to the evidence-based science and merit defining the appropriate use of medical imaging in both adult and pediatric patients. Chapters are divided into major areas of medical imaging and cover the most prevalent diseases in developed countries, including the four major causes of mortality and morbidity: injury, coronary artery disease, cancer, and cerebrovascular disease. This book gives the reader a clinically-relevant overview of evidence-based imaging, with topics including epidemiology, patient selection, imaging strategies, test performance, cost-effectiveness, radiation safety and applicability. Each chapter is framed around important and provocative clinical questions relevant to the daily physician’s practice. Key points and summarized answers are highlighted so the busy clinician can quickly understand the most important evidence-based imaging data. A wealth of illustrations and summary tables reinforces the key evidence.
This revised, softcover edition adds ten new chapters to the material from the original, hardcover edition, covering radiation risk in medical imaging, the economic and regulatory impact of evidence-based imaging in the new healthcare reform environment in the United States, and new topics on common disorders.
By offering a clear understanding of the science behind the evidence, Evidence-Based Imaging fills a void for radiologists, family practitioners, pediatricians, surgeons, residents, and others with an interest in medical imaging and a desire to implement an evidence-based approach to optimize quality in patient care.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“The format for the chapters is concise, consistent, commendable, and user-friendly. … This book has a wide reading audience ranging from radiologists, clinicians, and radiation therapists to the trainees in each discipline. … this book should also be read and used by third-party payers and individuals who are responsible for allocating imaging resources from the state to national levels … . This is a must-have book for individual libraries, and copies should also be available to all individuals dealing with health care issues.” (Aurelio Matamoros, Jr., The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 53 (4), April, 2012)Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Evidence-Based Imaging
Book Subtitle: Improving the Quality of Imaging in Patient Care
Editors: L. Santiago Medina, C. Craig Blackmore, Kimberly Applegate
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7777-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7776-2
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7777-9
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 680
Number of Illustrations: 244 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Imaging / Radiology, Diagnostic Radiology, Neuroradiology, Nuclear Medicine