Teleradiology services provider Virtual Radiologic (vRad) has released its new Radiology Patient Care (RPC) Indices.
The set of findings-based national and peer group radiology benchmarking metrics is derived from vRad's clinical database of more than 22 million imaging studies from more than 2,000 facilities in all 50 states.
The RPC Indices are aggregated from radiology studies normalized on key variables, such as patient age, gender, body region, geography, type of hospital and independent delivery network (IDN), bed size, modality, reasons for study order, and findings status.
The first RPC Indices that have been released focus on the use and effectiveness of CT in the emergency department (ED) nationwide.
The company plans to release additional indices for CT use in the ED, as well as for other imaging modalities such as MRI and mammography.
