Trends and future needs in clinical radiology: Insights from an academic medical center

Chrysanthopoulou, Athina; Kalogeropoulos, Andreas; Terzis, George; Georgiopoulou, Vassiliki; Kyriopoulos, John; Siablis, Dimitrios; Dimopoulos, J

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2006.03.007

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“…Many investigations focus on historical trends at the national (e.g., Wu et al, 2013) or global (e.g., Thomas, 2011) level. We found only one article that, like ours, uses facility-level data to produce specific numerical forecasts of radiological volume: Chrysanthopoulou et al (2007). In that article, 60 monthly forecasts of radiology volume are used to compare differences in utilisation rates across different imaging modalities at a teaching hospital in Greece with the intent to better understand how future demand for the modalities might increase (or decrease) over the next five years.…”

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“…Trend and seasonality tend to capture the analytical focus of health care forecasting projects. For purposes of long-term capacity planning, trend is of primary importance (e.g., Chrysanthopoulou et al, 2007) whereas seasonality dominates an analysis of day-to-day operations (e.g., Jones & Joy, 2002). In some settings, both trend and seasonality need to be considered (Côté & Tucker, 2001).…”

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Forecasting the demand for radiology services

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Smith

2017

Health Systems

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Since the demand for health services is the key driver for virtually all of a health care organisation's financial and operational activities, it is imperative that health care managers invest the time and effort to develop appropriate and accessible forecasting models for their facility's services. In this article, we analyse and forecast the demand for radiology services at a large, tertiary hospital in Florida. We demonstrate that a comprehensive and accurate forecasting model can be constructed using well-known statistical techniques. We then use our model to illustrate how to provide decision support for radiology managers with respect to department staffing. The methodology we present is not limited to radiology services and we advocate for more routine and widespread use of demand forecasting throughout the health care delivery system.

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Forecasting the demand for radiology services

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Smith

2017

Health Systems

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“…Utilization of high-technology and high-cost diagnostic imaging has increased substantially over the past decades [ 1 - 7 ]. This growth can be attributed to various factors such as aging populations, advances in imaging technology, that radiology is indicated in more clinical conditions [ 6 , 8 ], availability of the technology [ 9 ] and increasing number of radiologists [ 10 ]. Referring physicians have a central role in how radiological services are used, and studies have singled out several factors affecting their test-ordering behaviour, including patients' expectations [ 11 - 14 ], professional uncertainty [ 12 , 14 ], stress from uncertainty and time constraints [ 15 ], defensive medicine [ 16 , 17 ], payment system [ 18 ], and physicians' self-referral [ 19 , 20 ].…”

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What causes increasing and unnecessary use of radiological investigations? a survey of radiologists' perceptions

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Hofmann

2009

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background: Growth in use and overuse of diagnostic imaging significantly impacts the quality and costs of health care services. What are the modifiable factors for increasing and unnecessary use of radiological services? Various factors have been indentified, but little is known about their relative impact. Radiologists hold key positions for providing such knowledge. Therefore the purpose of this study was to obtain radiologists' perspective on the causes of increasing and unnecessary use of radiological investigations.

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“…Considering the theme investigated in the present study, this is rather worrisome, as more people will have access or will demand access to more expensive and complex imaging studies (25) . Additionally, modern evidencebased medicine increasingly demands examinations with more reliable results, with lower risk both to patients and the specialist and at accessible operational cost (26) , which can only be attained with a research & development platform strongly focused on science, technology and innovation (27) .…”

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O perfil Brasileiro de propriedade intelectual em radiologia e diagnóstico por imagem em um contexto internacional, nos anos 2000-2009

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OBJETIVO: Analisar a inovação tecnológica brasileira na área de radiologia e diagnóstico por imagem, em termos de indicadores de patentes. MATERIAIS E MÉTODOS: Este é um estudo analítico-exploratório de informações recuperadas por meio de consultas cruzadas nas bases de dados dos escritórios de propriedade intelectual do Brasil (Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial - INPI), dos Estados Unidos (United States Patent and Trademark Office - USPTO) e da Europa (European Patent Office - EPO). RESULTADOS: Foram encontradas 277.057 patentes. Desse total, 7.800 foram registradas no INPI (3%), 65.428 (24%) registradas no EPO e 203.829 (73%) emitidas no USPTO. O Brasil é o país signatário em 1.732 patentes publicadas no INPI, 80 no EPO e 26 no escritório USPTO. Globalmente, 219.993 (79%) patentes referiam-se a dispositivos eletrônicos ligados a informática em saúde, ultrassonografia, ressonância magnética, tomografia computadorizada e procedimentos de geração, comunicação e arquivamento de imagens, e 57.064 (21%) das patentes tratavam das tecnologias relacionadas a radioproteção e dosimetria, física nuclear, eletroterapia, terapia magnética e radioterapia. CONCLUSÃO: Os resultados obtidos apontam para a fragilidade da produção nacional de inovação tecnológica registrada em patentes, no campo de radiologia e diagnóstico por Imagem.

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Trends and future needs in clinical radiology: Insights from an academic medical center

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Forecasting the demand for radiology services

Forecasting the demand for radiology services

What causes increasing and unnecessary use of radiological investigations? a survey of radiologists' perceptions

O perfil Brasileiro de propriedade intelectual em radiologia e diagnóstico por imagem em um contexto internacional, nos anos 2000-2009

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