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An Important and Often Ignored Turnaround Time in Radiology – Clinician Turnaround Time: Implications for Musculoskeletal Radiology Cover

An Important and Often Ignored Turnaround Time in Radiology – Clinician Turnaround Time: Implications for Musculoskeletal Radiology

By: Michael Mayer and  Ronnie Sebro  
Open Access
|Aug 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.1834 | Journal eISSN: 2514-8281
Language: English
Submitted on: Apr 21, 2019
Accepted on: Jul 14, 2019
Published on: Aug 14, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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