Radiology in the Era of Value-based Healthcare: A Multi-Society Expert Statement from the ACR, CAR, ESR, IS3R,

Adrian P Brady1, Jaqueline A Bello2, Lorenzo E Derchi2

  • 1From Mercy University Hospital, Grenville Place, Centre, Cork, T12 WE28, Ireland (A.P.B.); European Society of Radiology (ESR), Vienna, Austria (A.P.B., L.E.D., M.F.); Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY (J. Bello); American College of Radiology (ACR), Reston, Va (J. Bello, J. Brink); University of Genoa, Genoa Italy (L.E.D.); Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria (M.F.); Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (S.G.); Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR), Sydney, Australia (S.G., J.S.); Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (G.P.K., J.J.V., J. Brink); International Society for Strategic Studies in Radiology (IS3R), Vienna, Austria (G.P.K., J.J.V.); Langley Memorial Hospital, Langley, Canada (E.J.Y.L.); Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR), Ottawa, Canada (E.J.Y.L., J.P., R.E.A.W.); Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa (D.C.L., V.M.R.); Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), Oak Brook, Ill (D.C.L.†, V.M.R.); McGill University, Montreal, Canada (J.P.); Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR), Ottawa, Canada (E.J.Y.L., J.P., R.E.A.W.); Flinders Medical Centre and Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia (J.S.); University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada (R.E.A.W.); Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (J. Brink).

Radiology
|December 21, 2020
PubMed

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