Quality initiatives: lean approach to improving performance and efficiency in a radiology department.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Radiographics

• Publication date

  2012-03-05

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1148/rg.322115128PMID 22323617
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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