BACKGROUND Much has been written about the patient-centred approach in doctor-patient consultations. Little is known about interactions and communication processes regarding healthcare providers' and patients' perspectives on expectations and experiences of diagnostic imaging investigations within the medical encounter. Patients journey through the health system from the point of referral to th...

Medical imaging used to be primarily within the domain of radiology, but with the advent of virtual pathology slides and telemedicine, imaging technology is expanding in the healthcare enterprise. As new imaging technologies are developed, they must be evaluated to assess the impact and benefit on patient care. The authors review the hierarchical model of the efficacy of diagnostic imaging syst...

BACKGROUND Medical and technological progress has led to increased numbers of diagnostic tests, some of them inducing high financial costs. In Germany, high-cost diagnostic imaging is performed by a medical specialist after referral by a general practitioner (GP) or specialist in primary care. The aim of this study was to evaluate the physicians' perceived usefulness of high-cost diagnostic ima...

Diagnostic imaging is a principal method of analysis in modern medicine. Doctors and other medical professionals gain invaluable information about their patients through medical scans such as X-Rays, computed tomography (CT) cans, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). With this visual information, medical practitioners diagnose and monitor the health of their patients, and medical researchers g...

C ardiovascular physical examination has changed little since the 19th century, but medical practice, in the meantime, has changed substantially. The diseases we treat, the circumstances of patient evaluation, the ages and comorbidities of patients, the availability of diagnostic testing, and the implications of missed diagnoses in an era of effective therapy all pose challenges. The traditiona...

D. Coman, G. Kiefer, D. L. Rothman, D. A. Sherry, and F. Hyder Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Quantitative Neuroscience with Magnetic Resonance (QNMR), Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Macrocyclics, Dallas, TX, United States, Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Advanced Imaging Resear...