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Adoption of a Closed-Loop Communication Tool to Establish and Execute a Collaborative Follow-Up Plan
May 01, 2019
The study concluded, “A closed-loop communication system that enables establishing and executing a collaborative follow-up plan for incidental pulmonary nodules can be adopted and improves the quality of radiologists’ follow-up recommendations.”
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Hammer MM, Kapoor N, Desai SP, Sivashanker KS, Lacson R, Demers JP, Khorasani R. Adoption of a closed-loop communication tool to establish and execute a collaborative follow-up plan for incidental
pulmonary nodules. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2019;212(5): 1077-1081. https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.18.20692.
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