title: Radiology services survey of rural frontier hospitals.
abstract: Little has been written about rural frontier hospitals and the radiology services they provide. The authors surveyed rural hospitals in seven Western states, with emphasis on technologist accreditation, numbers and educational level of personnel, patient occupancy, test volume and referrals. They found accreditation, patient referral and employee credentialing to be a function of hospital bed size, while radiology department employment remained constant at 3 percent of the facility's total employment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 89154.
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Goldsworthy
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Pawar
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D003625:Data Collection; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006780:Hospitals, Rural; D006801:Humans; D015205:Northwestern United States; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D015206:Southwestern United States; D000078329:Workforce