title: Transfer patient imaging: current status, review of the literature, and the Harborview experience.
abstract: Patients transferred for higher levels of care often arrive with medical imaging from the outside facility, with or without accompanying radiology reports. The handling of pretransfer studies by receiving radiologists introduces several concerns regarding resource utilization, medicolegal risk, and technical quality control. The authors review the current status of transfer patient imaging, with an emphasis on the role of the receiving emergency radiologist. Practice solutions developed at the authors' level I trauma center are described.
authors: Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. mcneeley@u.washington.edu
authors: Michael F
authors: MF
authors: McNeeley
authors: Martin L
authors: ML
authors: Gunn
authors: Jeffrey D
authors: JD
authors: Robinson
mesh_terms: D016251:CD-ROM; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003657:Decision Making; D003951:Diagnostic Errors / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D010360:Patient Transfer; D011786:Quality Control; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D019233:Retreatment; D016526:Workload