Improving productivity in the x-ray film file room.
A film filing system using color coding of the last two digits of assigned numbers was compared with a system designed around the current film file and readily available patient identifiers: name, sex, and date of examination. In the FASD system (filed alphabetically by sex and date), films are filed in time units by date of last activity and within these time units by sex and last name. The FASD system was shown to cut in half the routine work of film filing.
D004526:Efficiency; D005371:Filing / Q000379:methods*; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011872:Radiology Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States