Comprehensive Review of the Limitations of Relative Value Unit Measurements of Productivity in Academic Departments

作者: Theodore J. Dubinsky

DOI: 10.1097/RUQ.0B013E3182915931

关键词: Picture archiving and communication systemRelative value unitGenerator (computer programming)ProductivityCost centreMedicineRevenueOperations management

摘要: AbstractMeasuring radiologist, especially sonologist, productivity has never been of greater interest than now, as radiology moved from its historical status a cost center to the largest revenue generator in most institutions. With more local institutional and federal oversight regulation

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