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Health services Sessions at RSNA 2009 will focus on quality, patient care process.

RSNA meeting attendees can expect health services scientific sessions to focus on quality, according to the committee chair. The sessions will define quality and how radiologists can work on the entire care experience.

One paper from Australia focuses on improving quality by describing the facility's adverse events database, which looks at errors across the care spectrum. The session is meant to focus attention on areas that need more improvement, like mismarked films and wrong patients getting imaged, said Carlos, an associate professor of radiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Another of the papers submitted will focus on safety in the radiology department and how to prevent falls.

Since health services policy and research is such a broad topic, it's hard to point out year-to-year trends, according to Carlos. This year, there are quite a few papers on quality and on comparative effectiveness research, and many of the papers came from outside the U.S., she said.

Source: RSNA

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